Such legislation is not an unlawful interference with the parents' control over the child or right to its labor, nor with the liberty of the child.

—a statute was held to be within the police power which prohibited the appearance of a child under fourteen years of age in public on any stage.

—natural and inherent right to the nurture, control and tutorship of their offspring, that they may be brought up according to the parents' conception of what is right and just, decent and respectable, and manly and noble in life, the state yet stands in the position of parens patrias to, and may exercise its just powers "in preparing the child, in future life, to support itself, to serve …

This section is not violative of any constitutional right, but is within the police power of the legislature.

—supra) in treating of police power, Judge GRAY wrote: "We may say of it that when its operation is in the direction of so regulating a use of private property, or of so restraining personal action, as manifestly to secure, or to tend to the*** protection of the community, no constitutional guaranty is violated, and the legislative authority is not transcended."

In reaching this conclusion, however, the court recognized that the purpose of the statute was the protection of children and that the legislation was enacted pursuant to the authority of the state, "acting as parens patriae, to protect `the physical, mental or moral well-being of the child.'"

—or against persons wearing United States uniforms (Penal Code, § 517); appearance of children under fourteen upon the stage

While compulsory school laws affect individual liberties to some degree, this deprivation of liberty is so small when balanced against the huge social benefit of the law that the reasonableness of such legislation has not been seriously challenged and has been unanimously upheld.

—holding a state law that prohibited children from being exhibited in the theater and in other occupations as a valid exercise of the state's legislative power

Subject, however,'to the limitation that the real object of the statute must appear, upon inspection, to have a reasonable connection with the welfare of the public, the exercise of the police power by the legislature is well established as not in conflict with the constitution.

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