"Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body."
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Felix Frankfurter, Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587, 594 (1961).
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