What is the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment 3 "liberty" clause in the Fourth Amendment 3 and what is the scope of the constitutional test?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Montalvo v. Madera Unified Sch. Dist. Bd. of Education, 21 Cal.App.3d 323, 98 Cal.Rptr. 593 (Cal. App. 1971):
The 'liberty' provision of the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment 3 has been broadly construed to constrict the governmental power of the state in its regulation of many different kinds of activities, including 'the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men' (Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) 262 U.S. 390, 399, 43 S.Ct. 625, 626, 67 L.Ed. 1042), and to travel, choose what one eats, wears or reads (Kent v. Dulles (1958) 357 U.S. 116, 125--127, [21 Cal.App.3d 333] 78
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