Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto President Harding (a resident of the Federal enclave of Ohio)—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Capper Volstead Cooperative Marketing Associations Act, suspending anti-trust prosecutions against the nation’s farmers who buy and sell in cooperatives.
Question: In a free-market, why would government make any attempt to interfere with how individuals buy and sell their goods, services or labor?
[updated 6/24/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 303.
American President American President.mht Key Events in the Presidency of Warren G. Harding
millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/keyevents/harding