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Congressional debates over the Sixteenth Amendment centered on two competing visions: proponents argued it corrected the Supreme Court's Pollock decision and enabled a , while opponents warned it woul...
Several states and prominent political actors opposed the Sixteenth Amendment during its 1909–1913 adoption campaign, with opposition concentrated in the Northeast and among “establishment” Republican...
The Sixteenth Amendment’s main purpose was to give Congress the explicit constitutional authority to tax incomes without apportioning those taxes among the states by population, thereby authorizing a ...