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The Constitution of the United States of America

Note 34 — AMENDMENT 16

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The donor could not, "by mere gift, enable another to hold this stock free from * * * the right of the sovereign to take part of any increase in its value when separated through sale or conversion and reduced to possession."—Taft v. Bowers, 278 U.S. 470, 482, 484 (1929).

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