Henry Ford

THE men who framed the Constitution of the United States intended that all regulations relating to the election of senators and representatives should be made by the several states, but they gave Congress the right to step in and control this matter if it ever saw fit. In most respects the regulations made by the states were adequate and satisfactory, but on several occasions during the second half of the nineteenth century Congress intervened to …

…far in excess of the maximum limit prescribed by the Corrupt Practices Act. Accordingly, Senator Newberry was haled before a Federal court and convicted of having been a party to the violation of this law. The conviction, however, was appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled, in a five-to-four decision, that Congress had exceeded its powers in attempting to regulate primary elections. In other words a majority of the justices held that the power to