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Protesters argue that the income tax violates the Fifth Amendment right that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". [4] However, people can be deprived of life, liberty, or property with due process of law — this is what the courts do. [8] Legal commentator Daniel B. Evans describes:
One argument is that the definitions of "state" and "United States" in most subparts and the general definition in the Internal Revenue Code are what other amending code sections [clarification needed] [1] [2] refer to as "a special definition of 'state'", where the statutory definitions include the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and some other territories, without mentioning the 50 states.
Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, an amendment proposed by Congress must be ratified by three-fourths of the states to become part of the Constitution. The Article permits Congress to specify, for each amendment, whether the ratification must be by each state's legislature or by a constitutional convention in each state; for the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress specified ratification by ...
Y indicates that state ratified amendment: N indicates that state rejected amendment: Y (‡) indicates that state ratified amendment after first rejecting it: Y (×) indicates that state ratified amendment, but later rescinded that ratification: ⋈ indicates that state did not complete action on amendment during stated ratification period.
Article 7 defines the state's taxation policy, the mechanisms for taxation and allows for certain tax exemptions, rebates or exclusions. The re House passes constitutional amendment bill that ...
Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments are assertions that the imposition of the U.S. federal income tax is illegal because the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration ...
Due to the political difficulties of taxing individual wages without taxing income from property, a federal income tax was impractical from the time of the Pollock decision until the time of ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment (below). Thus, the 1894 tax law was ruled unconstitutional and was effectively repealed.
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