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' .
In the preface to E. E. Cummings: The Growth of a Writer by Norman Friedman, critic Harry T. Moore notes, He [Cummings] had his name put legally into lower case, and in his later books the titles and his name were always in lower case.. According to Cummings's widow, however, this is incorrect.