When a single trust company bought up 98% of the country’s sugar refineries, President Cleveland’s administration took the company to court for violating the new Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

But the Supreme Court ruled against the government.

Congress’s power over interstate commerce, it says, doesn’t mean it can regulate production. That power, the Court says, belongs to each state. Preserving state “autonomy” is vital to preserving our Constitution’s “dual form of government.”

Only Justice Harlan disagrees. The Constitution, he protests, doesn’t put the federal government in “such a condition of helplessness.”