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  2. Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Sixteenth Amendment in the National Archives. The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.

  3. Before the 16th Amendment on income taxes, federal ... - AOL

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    The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in February 1913, created the federal income tax in America. This form of taxation made the federal government powerful. It was supported by advocates called ...

  4. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the White Court

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    power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment: Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. 240 U.S. 103 (1916) power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment: Georgia, Florida, & Alabama Railway Co. v. Blish Milling Co. 241 U.S. 190 (1916) responsibilities of parties under a bill of lading: United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ...

  5. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.

  6. The Law that Never Was - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Kids Have First Amendment Rights Too, Federal Judge ... - AOL

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    Banning people under age 16 from accessing social media without parental consent "is a breathtakingly blunt instrument" for reducing potential harms, the judge writes.

  9. Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. - Wikipedia

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    Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the validity of a tax statute called the Revenue Act of 1913, also known as the Tariff Act, Ch. 16, 38 Stat. 166 (October 3, 1913), enacted pursuant to Article I, section 8, clause 1 of, and the Sixteenth Amendment to, the United States Constitution, allowing a ...