Difference between revisions of "Mann Act"
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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.
... 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. [1]