16th+Amendment+-+1913

excerpts from internet:
 * Under Taft were proposed the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, allowing a graduated income tax, and the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for the election of Senators directly by popular vote instead of by the state legislatures, as the original Constitution provided.**

actual 16th amendment text:
 * 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.**

caused by court fight of The **Sixteenth Amendment** (**Amendment XVI**) of the [|United States Constitution] was ratified on February 3, 1913. This Amendment overruled //[|Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.]// (1895), which greatly limited [|the Congress's] authority to levy an [|income tax]. This Amendment allows the Congress to levy an income tax without regard to [|the States] or [|the Census].