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From 226 U.S. 157 - Central Lumber Company v. State of South Dakota · 1912Most cited · 323 citing opinions

If the legislature shares the now prevailing belief as to what is public policy, and finds that a particular instrument of trade war is being used against that policy in certain cases, it may direct its law against what it deems the evil as it actually exists without covering the whole field of possible abuses, and it may do so none the less that the forbidden act does not differ in kind from those that are allowed.

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