...commerce power to ban prostitutes from interstate trade. It made it a felony for anyone to transport "for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose" a woman or a girl. Supporters of the act saw it as a legitimate congressional enactment. They compared...

...obtaining transportation for, or in transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce . . any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or...other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to debauchery,...

...their wives had violated a federal statute making it a crime to transport a woman across state lines "for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." Mr. Justice Douglas, writing for the majority, upheld the convictions of the Mormons saying, "The establishment...

...prohibiting prostitution and made it a federal crime to transport in interstate commerce "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery or for any other immoral purpose." This broadened language permitted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to prosecute both men and...

...commonly attributed to them."" Here, the act punished the interstate transportation of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose."'" Although Day conceded that the "immoral purpose would be more culpable in morals and attributed to...

...driven her in my car. What the Mann Act said a man could not do was to transport a woman interstate 'for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose'. That meant any man who took any woman who was not his wife across interstate lines and had sex with...

...the fact that assist in obtaining transportation in interstate or foreign commerce any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or...other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute." 56 The Mann Act, one of the...

...obtaining transportation for, or in transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce . . . any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or...other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to debauchery,...

..."knowingly persuade, induce, entice, or coerce" or even to "cause" or to aid, a woman to cross state lines for "the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." Violations of the law carried a fine of $5,000 and a possible jail term of five years; both could be...

...conducive to sexual activity. The verdict stood because the 1910 law made the transport of any white female "for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose" a crime. The Mann Act, the Court argued, was not limited to commercial vice, since its intent was "a...