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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to levy and collect income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. Prior to the Sixteenth Amendment Congress was limited by the Supreme Courts Decision in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. in which they ruled that the unapportioned income taxes on interest, dividends, and rents imposed by the Income Tax Act of 1894 were, in effect, direct taxes, and were unconstitutional because they violated the rule that direct taxes be apportioned.
The Seventeenth Amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, transferring Senator selection from each state's legislature to popular election by the people of each state. It also provides a contingency provision enabling a state's governor, if so authorized by the state legislature, to appoint a Senator in the event of a Senate vacancy until either a special or regular election to elect a new Senator is held.
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What is the oridinal number after sixteenth?
seventeenth
Which amendment allows for the direct election of senators by the people?
The Seventeenth Amendment allowed U.S. Senators to be elected directly by the people.
Could you use a sentence with seventeenth amendment?
Here are some sentences.The seventeenth amendment altered the constitution.That's against the seventeenth amendment.
The Sixteenth Seventeenth Eighteenth Amendment addressed the moral issue of alcohol?
The 16th Amendment gave Congress the right to collect income taxes. The 17th Amendment established that the Senate would be comprised of two senators from each state. The 18th Amendment established the prohibition of alcohol.
When did Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland happen?
Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland happened in 1997.
When did Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan happen?
Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan happened in 2003.
Where was ballet developed?
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French courts
What were the majority of people in russia in the sixteenth and seventeenth century?
i have no ieada
The ''income tax'' amendment?
The Sixteenth Amendment
Which amendment allows the people the right to elect their senators directly?
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the poor were seen as?
Non-voting peasants
Which amendment provided for the direct election or senators?
Seventeenth amendment
