An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

Free slaves, often referred to as “freedmen,” organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on ...

At the museums we visited, the people we spoke to were deeply worried about revoked funds, their first-amendment rights, and ...

The bulletin moved just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, 1920, conveying the breaking news that the 19th Amendment had been ratified giving women the constitutional right to vote. The AP had been covering ...

The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in February 1913, created the federal income tax in America. This form of taxation made the federal government powerful. It was supported by advocates called ...

The amendment was ratified on Feb. 3, 1913, clearing the legal hurdles to taxation, and an income tax was levied that year. Important Since the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913, the United ...

United States, each of the separate opinions contended that the 16th Amendment (ratified in 1913 ... In the spring of 2009, Justice Alito visited George Mason Law school. About two years ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michele Frank, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) Most Americans don’t like ...

For example, some tax deniers believe that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to collect income taxes, was never properly ratified.

“Ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913 was intended to allow Congress to enact a permanent federal income tax, which it did in October of that year, to allow it to rely on collecting ...