Sixteenth Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on incomes.

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Example Sentences

The Sixteenth Amendment gives the federal government the power to enact a progressive income tax; the Seventeenth requires that the people, not legislators, choose United States senators.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2018

No less important, the Sixteenth Amendment, adopted in 1913, established a national income tax; until then, as much as thirty per cent of federal revenue had come from excise taxes on alcohol.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

Additional monies came from the government’s use of federal income tax revenue, which was made possible by the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Congress passed the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, so the government could tax people’s income, or wages.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

After listening to Lucy Stone plead for renewed work for woman suffrage and for petitions for a Sixteenth Amendment, she spontaneously rose to her feet and asked permission to speak.

From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma