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To: spunkets
Congress can regulate the "Manner" of holding elections this clearly falls within that power.
1,022 posted on 12/10/2003 11:10:09 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
"Congress can regulate the "Manner" of holding elections this clearly falls within that power."

It does not. The manner of elections regards the mechanics, not the Freedom of specch involved in presenting and diseminating information about candidates. What this does fall under is the 1st Amend. of the Bill of Rights only.

1,036 posted on 12/10/2003 11:14:08 AM PST by spunkets
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