It took a 1913 Constitutional Amendment to bring it back for good, and its activities topped during World War I, before falling back to more normal levels.
This organization has its roots in 1862, when its first commissioner was appointed, although the initiative it was founded to support disappeared 10 years later. Another attempt was made to create a similar initiative, but it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1895, a year after its creation. It took a 1913 Constitutional Amendment to bring it back for good, and its activities topped during World War I, before falling back to more normal levels. Reorganized twice, once in the 1950s, and once by the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, this is, FTP, what government agency, whose biggest effort is a byproduct of the 16th amendment?
This organization has its roots in 1862, when its first commissioner was appointed, although the initiative it was founded to support disappeared 10 years later.
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