UNITED STATES v. SPRAGUE


44 F.2d 967 (1930)

UNITED STATES v. SPRAGUE et al.

District Court, D. New Jersey.

December 16, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Forman, U. S. Atty., of Trenton, N. J.

Frederic M. P. Pearse, of Newark, N. J. (Selden Bacon, Daniel F. Cohalan, and Julius Henry Cohen, all of New York City, of counsel), for Defendants.


CLARK, District Judge.

The traditional method of adopting amendments to the United States Constitution is challenged. Upon the outcome of that challenge depends the disposition of the case at bar. Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the appellate courts, we hope that it will at least have the effect of focusing the country's thought upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions. We have often wished for some statute...

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