 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 902 pages
...inferior officers appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 10. A contemporaneous legislative exposition of the Constitution...when the founders of our Government and framers of the Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, acquiesced in for many years, fixes... | |
 | 1906 - 1232 pages
...confirms this interpretation: "As early as 1797 Congress imposed a legacy tax." And this was "at a time when the founders of our Government and framers of...Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, thus giving practical construction to the Constitution which they had helped to establish." The argument... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 672 pages
...the history of the government. The act of 1797, which ordained legacy taxes, was adopted at a time when the founders of our government and framers of...Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, thus giving a practical construction to the Constitution which they had helped to establish. Even the... | |
 | United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue - Taxation - 1901 - 392 pages
...the history of the Government. The act of 1797, which ordained legacy taxes, was adopted at a time when the founders of our Government and framers of...Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, thus giving a practical construction to the Constitution which they had helped to establish. Even the... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 812 pages
...in the history of the government. The act of 1797 which ordained legacy taxes was adopted at a time paritcipating in public affairs, thus giving a practical construction to the Constitution which they... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...the history of the government. The act of 1797, which ordained legacy taxes, was adopted at a time when the founders of our government and framers of...Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, thus giving a practical construction to the Constitution which they had helped to establish. ... It... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - Constitutional law - 1915 - 376 pages
...the history of the government. The Act of 1797, which ordained legacy taxes, was adopted at a time when the founders of our government and framers of...Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, thus giving a practical construction to the Constitution which they had helped to establish. Even the... | |
 | United States Tariff Commission - Commerce - 1934 - 1170 pages
...competition. ******* In this first Congress sat many members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This court has repeatedly laid down the principle...when the founders of our Government and framers of pur Constitution were actively participating in public affairs, long acquiesced in, fixes the construction... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - Agriculture - 1924 - 1110 pages
...in the history of the Government. The act of 1797, which ordained legacy taxes was adopted at a time @ +W aZ U.Y o b I 55 a = )CN j% s r <r r * Z ?` y_ SX˔ H r thus giving a practical construction to the Constitution which they had helped to establish." Again... | |
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This court has repeatedly laid down the principle that a contemporaneous legislative exposition of the Constitution when the founders of our Government and framers of our Constitution were actively participating in public affairs long acquiesced in fixes... 
