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The amendment that built the administrative state
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The article examines how the 16th Amendment (ratified in 1913) removed the constitutional restriction on federal income taxation, arguing this structural change enabled the growth of the modern administrative state.
The amendment that built the administrative state
The founders built a structural limit on federal taxing power, a restriction the Progressive Era removed. The government that followed was not a coincidence. The 16th Amendment, ratified Feb. 3, 1913, gave Congress the power to tax income “from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states.” Those 23 words eliminated the constitutional constraint […]
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