The US Supreme Court Has Already Ruled Mandatory Vaccinations Are Constitutional

Supreme Court Rules Mandatory Vaccines Constitutional

It's going to be difficult to argue that President Biden's recent vaccination mandates are unconstitutional and therefore illegal.  Not according to precedents set in the US Supreme Court.  And apparently, many of the laws which can be used to mandate vaccinations for COVID-19 have already been passed, are on the books, have been declared constitutional by the court and can be used in this case without requiring the approval of some cloistered Republican obstructionists.  

So roll up. your sleeves.  This is not something that violates either your personal individual liberties or your religious beliefs.  There's legal precedent for measures taken by state governments, including executive orders by governors, to protect citizens from the spread of an infectious disease.  

In 1905, in a case known as Jacobsen v. Massachusetts, the court ruled that a community has the "right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members."  The disease threatening the community of Cambridge, Massachusetts was smallpox.  While the court limited is ruling to just the specific case in that particular city, in 1922, Justice Brandeis, writing for a unanimous court, stated that the Jacobsen case "settled that it is within the police power of a state to provide for compulsory vaccination."  That decision came in the  Zucht v. King case which established the constitutionality of laws requiring students to get vaccinated in order to attend school.  

In the Jacobsen case, it was also argued that since a religious-based argument could not be made, religious objections or exemptions did not apply.  It is interesting that the court upheld a person's right to object to laws on religious grounds if there were any existing theological or doctrinal beliefs connected to a person's religion that forbid the practice of vaccination, but that in this particular case, the religious beliefs involved had no such teaching.  What that means is that if you are Christian, you shouldn't be lying about objecting to a vaccine on the grounds of your belief if your belief provides no support for the objection.  

Mask-wearing, which is not medically invasive, would also fall under the same protection.  So much for all of the lip-flapping and shrieking about "tyranny."  Clearly, mask mandates and vaccine mandates are means for government to exercise its constitutional duty to protect its citizens and that practice has already been upheld by the Supreme Court.  There are existing laws mandating vaccinations for a variety of diseases in all fifty states, and in order to attend school, students must have them.  Even in Texas and Florida.

Hey, now, wait just a minute?  That sounds an awful lot like a vaccination passport! 

Leave it up to Americans to have gone through this before, and settled the issue, only to have people act like this is a whole new thing and we've never been through it before.  Education is supposed to keep this kind of ignorance from happening.  Isn't the whole foundation of our public education system helping to support and preserve the Republic by creating informed voters?  Let's stop playing games and start teaching history. 

The people who are screaming the loudest about vaccinations and mask mandates are also the ones doing the most complaining about government restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID.  Why?  Because if COVID ends soon, President Biden might get the credit for it.