16 amendment
The amendments were wrote to amend parts of the Constitution of the United States. I have got info in the sixteenth amendment. I will be writing this report in the order that our note taking guide goes. What the amendment was about: The 16th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, proposed July 12, 1909, ratified in 1913, gives congress the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived and is the basis for all federal income tax legislation, previously the subject of much US Supreme Court controversy. Article 1, Sections 2 and 9, of the Constitution states that no direct tax may be imposed unless it is apportioned among the states according to population. After the first federal income tax was imposed (1862) during the Civil War, the US Supreme Court upheld it on the grounds that it was not a "direct" tax and so could not be levied without reference to state apportion
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Approximate Word count = 618
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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