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The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution in 1913, which allowed for an unapportioned income tax.
The was declared ratified when thirty-six state legislatures — three‑fourths of the forty‑eight states then in the Union — had approved it, and the Secretarial proclamation certified that threshold in...
, proposed by in 1909, was ratified by the legislatures of thirty-six states between 1909 and early 1913 and was proclaimed part of the Constitution in February 1913 . The official documentary record ...
approved the resolution proposing the by a recorded "yea" and "nay" vote — 318 yeas to 14 nays, with one Member voting "present" and 55 not voting — and that measure later completed congressional acti...