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LOTERRE

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Date: 1927Buck v. Bell  

Definition(s)

  • The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Bell (1927) was the culmination of a national movement to improve the quality of the population by implementing eugenic notions of heredity and racial improvement at the expense of individual rights. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Buck v. Bell]

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  • Date: 1927

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W49PH6JN-M

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