Hoke v. United States
| Hoke v. United States | |
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| Argued January 7–8, 1913 Decided February 24, 1913 | |
| Full case name | Effie Hoke and Basile Economides, Plaintiffs in Error, v. United States |
| Citations | 227 U.S. 308 (more) 33 S. Ct. 281; 57 L. Ed. 523; 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2301 |
| Holding | |
| Though Congress could not regulate prostitution per se—as that was strictly the province of the states—it could regulate interstate travel for purposes of prostitution or “immoral purposes.” | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | McKenna, joined by a unanimous court |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 8, cl. 3 | |
Hoke v. United States, 227 U.S. 308 (1913), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that the United States Congress could not regulate prostitution per se, as that was strictly the province of the states. Congress could, however, regulate interstate travel for purposes of prostitution or “immoral purposes.” It upheld the Mann Act.
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Further reading
- Keire, Mara L. (2001). "The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation of the White Slavery Scare in the United States, 1907-1917". Journal of Social History. 35 (1): 5–41. doi:10.1353/jsh.2001.0089. JSTOR 3789262.
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