UNITED STATES VS. TODD
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In 1794 Todd was by decree of the Circuit Court of Connecticut admitted to the U.S. pension list. It was afterward (in 1794) decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that the Circuit Court could not constitutionally make such decrees, nor could it act in the capacity of a commission not of judicial function. This related to the Act of Congress of 1792, relating to pensions, and formed the first instance in which the U.S. Supreme Court pronounced upon the constitutionality of an Act of Congress.
By John Franklin Jameson
