...students to attend public schools. In both cases the Court struck down the legislation as interfering with "the calling of modern language teachers, with...power of parents to control the education of their own." In a companion case to Pierce the Court applied its holding to nonreligious private schools,...

...due process cases, which emphasized interference "with the calling of modern language teachers ... and with the power of parents to control the education of their own." On this view, the most one can fairly find in Meyer and Pierce is a principle about freedom of...

...— a calling that cannot be outlawed by mere legislative fiat. Such laws also interfered wrongfully with "the opportunities of pupils to acquire knowledge,...power of parents to control the education of their own." The Court's rationale reached far beyond the dogma of liberty of contract. The Court said: That...

...attempted materially to interfere with the calling of modem language teachers, with the opportunity of pupils to acquire knowledge, and with the power of parents to control the education of their own. It is said the purpose of the legislation was to promote civic development by inhibiting training...

...statute. This evidently interfered with the modern language teachers, with the opportunities of children to acquire knowledge, and with the power of parents to control the education of their children. The state may go very far to improve the quality of its citizens, but certain fundamental...

...Nebraska's statute did more. According to Justice McReynolds, the Nebraska statute arbitrarily interfered with "the calling of modern language teachers, with...power of parents to control the education of their own."21 According to the Court, "No emergency has arisen which renders knowledge by a child of some...

...law had interfered "with the calling of modern language teachers, with the opportunities of children to acquire knowledge, and with the power of parents to control the education of their own."52 The Meyer decision established a precedent for a subsequent ruling in which the Court struck...

...him so to instruct their children, we think, are within the limits of the Amendment." * * * * * * * "Evidently the Legislature has attempted materially...power of parents to control the education of their own." * * * * * * * "That the state may do much, go very far, indeed, in order to improve the quality...

...proscribed; but German, Trench, Spanish, Italian, and every other alien speech are within the ban. Evidently the legislature has attempted materially...power of parents to control the education of their own. " It is said the purpose of the legislation was to promote civic development by inhibiting training...

...unwarranted interference with the constitutional guarantee of liberty. "Evidently," said the court, "the legislature has attempted materially to interfere...power of parents to control the education of their own children." The statute as applied was found to be arbitrary and without reasonable relation to...