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Bill Taft: “For the Congress to assume that the court will reverse itself, and to enact legislation on such an assumption, will not…”

On the recordJune 15, 1909
For the Congress to assume that the court will reverse itself, and to enact legislation on such an assumption, will not strengthen popular confidence in the stability of judicial construction of the Constitution.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the Congress Concerning Tax on Net Income of Corporations

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