Sixteenth Amendment

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

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Open-carry activists are known for baiting cops into on-camera arguments about the Second Amendment and state laws.
Texas Gun Slingers Police the Police—With a Black Panthers Tactic|Brandy Zadrozny|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They would not, for example, supersede federal law regarding the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment.
A Field General in the War on Christmas|David Freedlander|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Either we believe the First Amendment is worth defending or we do not.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They then would expect the Senate to strip that amendment and compromise simply on keeping government open for 60 days.
Bachmann and Pelosi vs. Boehner and Obama Over Spending Bill|Ben Jacobs|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Why are “threats,” unlike other scary speech, outside the protection of the First Amendment?
Does Free Speech Cover Murder Fantasies? The Supreme Court’s Definition of a ‘Threat’|Geoffrey R. Stone|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Consequently an amendment may be made diminishing the weekly allowance to a member who is sick, and also the time of allowing it.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
In the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
By the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution their rights and privileges have been further secured.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Virginia now ranks sixteenth in population among the fifty states of the United States.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
We will now take the reader to the primitive tobacco plantations of America about the middle of the Sixteenth Century.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.