Comment: Exactly, notice the last part

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Exactly, notice the last part

Terry v. Adams, 345 U.S. 461, 73 S. Ct. 809, 97 L. Ed. 1152 (1953)
where the Supreme Court ruled on the unconstitutionality of the pre-primary construct, which served to render the nomination/general election “perfunctory ratifiers” of previous decisions.