Sixteenth Amendment in the United States
Sixteenth Amendment
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled SIXTEENTH AMENDMENTThe Sixteenth Amendment was designed to circumvent pollock v. farmers ‘ loan and trust co. (1895) , in which the Supreme Court had held that a federal tax on income from property was a direct tax on that property and therefore invalid for want of apportionment among the states on
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