AMENDMENT XVI.

Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.

Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by this amendment.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.



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