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Cd ¢ 22. The Sixth Circuit said: - -Ui ted Siates v. Thomas, 1960, 352 _the 15th Amendment. "ff sharecropper-tenants in rorsession of real estate - under contract are threatene:.. intimidated or coerced by the landlords for the varcors of interfering with their rights of franchise, ccoritainiy the fact that the coercion relates to iont cz contracts would furnish mo excuse or defense to tne li-fierd for violating the law." 288 F. 2d 653, 654. 23, Judge Tuttle added: “Thus, although the defendar=s here may have had an almost restricted right to invexe the Alabama tres- ue pass law to keep all sercons i-cm entering upon their property after warning, i. 7 <'emercise of a desire’ to exercise exclusive owntrsnin and proprietary re interest in their preperc.. icc could not legally . . invoke the right of exciucine: Lonnie Brown, who had previously been given Irse secess to the property, as a threat or 3258 of coercion for the von survose of interferine - g stthe.or the right in exercisin their _ cf others whom he revoress right to register and vot. ae va 24. The Supreme Court has aifirnec the constitutionality of various provwisios s of the 1957 Act on other grounds than those at issue here. U.S. 58, 60 S.Ct, 612, 4 L.Ed. 49, 362 U.S. 17, 80 S.ct. 519, $0, 363 U.S. 420, 89 S.ct. 1502, 25 535; inited States v. Raines. “4 #4.EG. 273 524; Hannah v. Larche, 4 4.Ed. 24 1307. 22. Altr ough a statute thet is "neccssary anc proper" legislation te carry out the power of Congres to regulate elections for federal . office my also be “appropriate Legislation" to"“enforce” the pro- visions c£ the 15th, 14th, and i3*h amendments. The predecessor of Sizrtion 7971{a) withstood attach on constitutional grounds. In re Er yle, 8 Ped. Cas.C.c.D.Md. 1877, 716, No. 4,488. It was held to be _a valid ¢xercise of congressional power under the 15th Amendment. Chapman «. King, 5 Cir. 1946, 134 F,2¢ 460, cert.denied, 327 U.S. 800;— Kellogg \.. Warmouth, ¢.C.D.ha. 2372,:24 Fed.Cas. 257, No. 7,667. The Voting Rights Act of 1665 rests, in part, on Section 2 of oD » 26. “An abundance of judiciai Cicte znd holdings in analogous situa- tions make clear that the federzi ocwer- to regulate elections extends equally'to the registration process, Any matter affecting the character or choice of the federal electorate is so integrally related to the election ultimately held as to come within the '"holding' of the election under article I, secticn 4." Van Alstyne, Anti-literacy Test Legislation, 61 Mich. L. Rev. £93, 815(1963).