Re: [at-l] Graymor

["Coosa" <coosa@fox21.net>]

I'm not going to argue with you, my son in law teaches the Constitution, he
states that the amendment to pay taxes is unconstitutional.  If he was
teaching it wrong, he wouldn't be tenured.
Coosa


-----Original Message-----


>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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