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The following is an "interpretation" of the Fourteenth Amendment which is
precisely contrary to the intentions of its authors, and which completely undermined the
role of the father in this putative Christian nation:
The state statute alleged to have been drawn in question by appellant as repugnant to
the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States was 7996 of the Ohio General Code of 1910 providing that "The husband is the head of the family. He may choose any reasonable place
or mode of living, and the wife must conform thereto." The Probate Court was
said to have upheld that section as establishing the legal domicile of the children with
their father and, on that basis, to have upheld the Wisconsin decree as validly depriving
their mother of her custody over her children, although the Wisconsin court never obtained
personal jurisdiction over her.
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