2007-11-07 11:30:52 · 4 answers · asked by divagirls29 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
It took about 4 years. That is not very long. The 27th amendment took 202 years to ratify.
Crunch said "And that doesn't even get into the argument that it is a direct tax applied with no apportionment, which is forbidden in the Constitution. The wording of the 16th Amendment is outside of what is allowed in Article 1 Section 2 and Section 8."
It is an amendment to the constitution. An amendment can modify the constitution and as such can not be unconstitutional.
2007-11-07 11:36:45 · answer #1 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There seems to be some disagreement on the ratification of the 16th Amendment.
There are some instances of outright fraud in the counting of states ratifying the amendment and others who may have violated their own state's Constitution in order to ratify it.
One state actually reported ratification with no record of any vote ever being taken.
Some counts of states who adequately reviewed and ratified the amendment floats around 20 states some 103 years past the date it was submitted for ratification. Far from the 36 of the 48 necessary to incorporate the Amendment into the Constitution of the United States.
And that doesn't even get into the argument that it is a direct tax applied with no apportionment, which is forbidden in the Constitution. The wording of the 16th Amendment is outside of what is allowed in Article 1 Section 2 and Section 8.
2007-11-07 20:03:54 · answer #2 · answered by crunch 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why did it take so long?
My question is, why have we kept it for so long?
When the amendment was pushed, they promised the tax would only be necessary to fund WW1. I didn't know we were still in WW1.
2007-11-07 19:42:01 · answer #3 · answered by freedom first 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
nobody wanted to pay it
2007-11-07 19:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by Dr Sardonicus 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋