Time does not permit me to analyze or even enumerate all of the decisions which sustain what I have said. I wish to cite at this point a few decisions which reveal that the Supreme Court has encroached upon the constitutional powers of the Congress as the Nations legislative body. Congress was told by the Court in the Girouard (328 U.S. 61) and Yates (354 U.S. 298) cases that it really did not mean what it said in plain English when it enacted statutes to regulate the naturalization of aliens and to punish criminal conspiracies to overthrow the Government by force. Congress was told by the Court in the Watkins case (354 U.S. 178) that its committees must conduct their investigations according to rules imposed by the Court which make it virtually certain that no information will ever be obtained from an unwilling witness. Congress was told by the Court in the Allis Chalmers case (388 U.S. 175) that it practiced deceit on Americans who labor in industry when it gave them this assurance in section 7 of the Taft Hartley Act: "Employees shall have the right to refrain from any and all" concerted union activities.
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