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The '''Mann Act''' prohibits the transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes. It is meant to cut down on [[prostitution]] but is opposed by feminists.<fact/>
The '''Mann Act''' prohibits the transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes. It is meant to cut down on [[prostitution]] but is opposed by feminists.
{{quotebox|... the federal law referred to as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, a longtime Congressman from Illinois. It was passed in 1910, and its official name is the United States White-Slave Traffic Act. [http://www.lawkt.com/files/Mann_Act.html] }}
{{quotebox|... the federal law referred to as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, a longtime Congressman from Illinois. It was passed in 1910, and its official name is the United States White-Slave Traffic Act. [http://www.lawkt.com/files/Mann_Act.html] }}