Public protest was so great that both parties in the eighteen eighty-eight elections promised to pass a federal law against trusts.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Justice Taney said Congress did not have the constitutional power to pass such a law.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts urged Congress to pass such a law.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

But the matter is far from settled. President Sarkozy wants parliament to pass a nonbinding resolution, rather than a law.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30