The constitutional iniquity involved in all forms of the regulation of prostitution

· 1906

THE CONSTITUTIONAL INIQUITY INVOLVED IN ALL FORMS OF THE REGULATION OF PROSTITUTION. The moral aspect of this question is undoubtedly the most important. There is, however, another aspect of it closely allied with the moral side, which is of scarcely less importance, namely, the constitutional and legal view. The late Professor Sheldon Amos, Professor of Jurisprudence in the London University, exposed this side of the subject fully in his book, “Laws for the Regulation of Vice” (Stevens and Sons, London). A great legal writer, Mittermayer, says, “It is more and more acknowledged that the penal code of a nation is the keystone of that nation’s public law.” Another great authority on law, Mon…

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