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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Beno.

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1 State v. Beno Anchor
wis · 1984
green “because the revised statutes of 1849 are the first of our statutes to be enacted following the constitution, it is reasonable to rely on those statutes as reflecting the practice when the constitution was adopted to assist our interpretation of a word used by the authors of the …” 3
2 Payne v. City of Racine
wis · 1935
green “amounts to contemporaneous legislative construction of this constitutional provision, which construction is entitled to great deference” 3

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