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Meyer V. NebraskaMeyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923) was a U.S. Supreme Court case, which held that a Nebraska law passed in April, 1919 which prohibited the teaching of modern foreign languages to grade school children was unconstitutional, violating the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In his decision, Justice McReynolds, stated that although the state "may do much . . . in order to improve the quality of its citizens," the statute exceeded "the limitations on the power of the state and conflicted with rights assured" to Meyer. The "liberty" protected by the Due Process clause "denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint", but also included "those privileges . . . essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."
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