...Commonwealth, 388 US 1, 12 (1967); "the right to have offspring," Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 US 535, 536 (1942); "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the...upbringing and education of children under their control," Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 US 510, 534-35 9. Brodic, Marital Procreation, 49 Ore. L. Rev. 245,...

...violated a laissezfaire conception of freedom of contract, but the Court went further and emphasized "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children," arguing that "[t]he fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes...

...of all children between eight and sixteen at public schools compulsory, upon threat of prosecution, unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents...upbringing and education of children under their control," in the context of private schools.); Wisconsin v. Voder, 406 US 205, 215, 234-35 (1972) (recognizing...

...Court ruled that under the precedent set in Meyer, the law was an unconstitutional infringement on "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children" (534). Further detailing the rights and duties of parents to educate their children, the Court continued,...

...Oregon law was an unconstitutional violation of the substantive due process rights of the parents: We think it entirely plain that the Act of 1922 unreasonably...upbringing and education of children under their control .... The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any...

...Society of Sisters, McReynolds reiterated this view. "Under the doctrine of Meyer v. Nebraska? he wrote, "we think it entirely plain that the Act of 1922 unreasonably...upbringing and education of children under their control." 19 With Meyer, Pierce, and minimum-wage and maximum-hours rulings, the Supreme Court, writes constitutional...

...bolstered the rights of parents, in the latter case holding an Oregon law unconstitutional because it "unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents...upbringing and education of children under their control." But in his opinion for the Supreme Court in Prince, Justice Wiley Rutledge insisted that the First...

...of parental autonomy, not on the idea of religious freedom. The justices said that Oregon's statute "unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents...upbringing and education of children under their control."" They emphasized that "the child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct...

...limit to the state's power to interfere with liberty under the due process guarantee: specifically, "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the...upbringing and education of children under their control." The Court applied a rational basis test—"rights guaranteed by the Constitution may not be abridged...

...Holy Names oj Jesus and Mary (i925). The legislation, Associate Justice James McReynolds affirmed, "interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians...upbringing and education of children under their control. . . . The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any...