MEYER V. NEBRASKA
262 U.S. 390 (1923)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was an appeal from a conviction for unlawfully teaching the
subject of reading in the German language to a child of ten years, who had not attained and
successfully passed the eighth grade.
FACTS: A Nebraska law makes it a criminal offense to teach any subject to any person in
any private, denominational, parochial or public school in any language other than English.
Foreign languages could only be taught to those above the eighth grade. Meyer (D) was
indicted and convicted of this offense. The Supreme Court of the State affirmed the judgment
of conviction and it held that the statute forbidding this did not conflict with the
Fourteenth Amendment, but was a valid exercise of the police power. The obvious purpose of
this statute was that the English language should be and become the mother tongue of all
children reared in the state. The enactment of such a statute comes reasonably within the
police power of the state.
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LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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