Williams v. Arkansas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OP ARKANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the anti-drumming law of Arkansas of 1907, are stated in the opinion. The act is unconstitutional as it deprives appellant of the liberty and the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. It is an unlawful restriction upon the liberty of the citizen.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OP ARKANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the anti-drumming law of Arkansas of 1907, are stated in the opinion. The act is unconstitutional as it deprives appellant of the liberty and the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. It is an unlawful restriction upon the liberty of the citizen. The guaranty of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, secures to the citizen the right to pursue any calling not injurious to the public and to protect him against all interference with his business not in the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Plaintiff in error was convicted for violating a statute of the Btate of Arkansas, entitled “An act for the protection of passengers, and for the suppression of drumming and soliciting upon railroad trains and upon the nremises of common carriers/’ approved April 30, 1907. Acts of General Assembly, 1907, p. 553, Act, 236.
The first and second sections of that act are as follows:
“Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, exqept as hereinafter provided in section 2 of this act, to drum or solicit business or patronage for any hotel, lodging house, eating house, bath house,…
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