Re: [at-l] Graymor

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In a message dated 07/14/2000 10:12:17 PM EDT, coosa@fox21.net writes:

<< Congress may have ratified the bill but the States didn't -- it's an 
illegal
 law. >>

AMENDMENT XVI was Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909. Ratified by the 
Legislatures of three fourths of the 
several States, or by Conventions in three fourths of the States, with the 
ast doing so on February 3, 1913.

Article. V.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, 
shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the 
Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for 
proposing Amendments, which, *****in either Case, shall be valid to all 
Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the 
Legislatures of three fourths of the 
several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, ******as the one 
or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided 
that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight 
hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in 
the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its 
Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage 
in the Senate.
_________________________
AMENDMENT XVI

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


Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.

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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