Question

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What is the historical context and significance of the sixteenth and seventeenth amendments being ratified?

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@sammixboo @undeadknight26

Answer 2

Any options

Answer 3

@BrentsGirl4ever

Answer 4

No it's just a question @tabdo1226

Answer 5

Sixteenth Amendment, the right of the federal government to enact an income tax, was a long time coming. The first income tax was enacted in 1894, but this was quickly struck down by the Supreme Court. Due to low prices for agricultural goods and high prices for industrial goods, farmers had lobbied for such a tax since the Civil War, and the Democratic Party was behind this movement at the turn of the century. Conservatives in 1909 wanted once and for all prove the impossibility of such a measure, and so they went a step further than the progressives who wanted to add a income tax provision to a tariff bill and offered that it be made a constitutional amendment, believing that such a piece of legislation would never be ratified. But to their shock, the amendment was passed by over three-fourths of the state legislatures, and it was passed by Congress July 2, 1909. The Sixteenth Amendment took effect February 25, 1913, and has been considered one of the most important pieces of legislation in American history.

Answer 6

a lot of writing

Answer 7

what about the seventeenth? @tabdo1226

Answer 8

hold on almost
done

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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect that the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution

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@BrentsGirl4ever are you doing a test

Answer 11

No it's a review @tabdo1226

Answer 12

@BrentsGirl4ever i said are you doing a test !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 13

okay

Answer 14

There's your answer

Answer 15

Please close this question

Answer 16

I did I think.