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Constitutional Avoidance quote; Delaware & Hudson

It is elementary when the constitutionality of a statute is assailed, if the statute be reasonably susceptible of two interpretations, by one of which it would be unconstitutional and by the other valid, it is our plain duty to adopt that construction which will save the statute from constitutional infirmity.

US v Delaware & Hudson Co., 213 US 366 (1909)