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vague

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United States Supreme Court

vague, not in the sense that it requires a person to conform his conduct to an imprecise but comprehensible normative standard, but rather in the sense that no standard of conduct is specified at all. As a result, 'men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning.

Defined by the Supreme Court in - Coates v. City of Cincinnati, 402 U.S. 611 (1971).