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void for vagueness

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From 269 U.S. 385 - Connally v. General Construction Co. · 1926Most cited · 6,544 citing opinions

a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law

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