16th Amendment Ratified: Federal Income Tax Established to Shift Burden from Middle Class to Wealthy
Delaware became the 36th state to ratify the 16th Amendment, meeting the three-fourths requirement to establish Congress’s right to impose a federal income tax. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox certified the amendment on February 25, 1913. The amendment was part of a wave of Progressive …
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