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The uncertain consensus around vaccine mandates

Mandatory vaccination involves, at a glance, the constitutional rights to bodily integrity, privacy, to protection against unfair discrimination and to freedom of thought, religion, conscience and opinion. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Last month, former constitutional court justice Edwin Cameron felt it safe to say that there was, more or less, settled consensus among legal experts that Covid-19 vaccine mandates are constitutionally permissible. 

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