Give Me Liberty. Bill Bensonâs findings, published in âThe Law That Never Was,â make a convincing case that the 16th amendment was not legally ratified and that Secretary of State Philander Knox was not merely in error, but committed fraud when he declared it ratified in February 1913.
Cummings is an Irish variant of Cumming, with the addition of English patronymic-s. The Cumming surname is of disputed origin. It may be from a Celtic personal name derived from the element cam bent, crooked a common element in such surnames as 'Campbell' and 'Cameron' .
This is a locational name which derives from the village of Collingham (Bridge) near Wetherby in Yorkshire. The name is Anglo-Saxon and means 'the farm or homestead (ham) of the family (ing) of Coll-a personal name which probably derived from Nicolas.Locational names were usually given to former inhabitants who moved to another area, a system which also created the problem of transposed spellings.The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Johannes de Colyngham. which was dated 1379, in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls.during the reign of King Richard 11, known as Richard of Bordeaux 1378 - 1400.he name is Anglo-Saxon and means 'the farm or homestead (ham) of the family (ing) of Coll-a personal name which probably derived from Nicolas.