into Execution ... all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States.” Although other circuits have held that the combined effect of these provisions does not permit Congress to regulate “pure” state or local elections, see Bowman, 636 F.2d at 1011, elections in which federal and state candidates are on the same ballot are properly subject to federal regulation. Ibid, (observing that “Congress may regulate any activity which exposes the federal aspects of the election to the possibility of corruption, whether or not the actual corruption takes place and whether or not the persons participating in such activity had a specific intent to expose the federal election to such corruption or possibility of corruption”); see also McCranie, 169 F.3d at 727 (<HOLDING>). Under the Elections Clause, Congress is
holding that the contracts clause article i section 10 clause 1 to the united states constitution does not apply to the actions of the federal government holding no violation of federal establishment clause holding that elections clause and the necessary and proper clause combine to provide congress with the power to regulate mixed federal and state elections even when federal candidates are running unopposed holding that state court could regulate the practice of law in federal courts located in the state holding that the power to regulate the business of another and especially of a competitor is a denial of rights safeguarded by the due process clause