CJ 0852 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sixteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Remuneration, Enumerated Powers
9 Oct 2020
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The 16th amendment finally severed apportionment of taxes from electoral power by permitting congress to levy income taxes regardless of the census. More populated states got more representation in the house and more presidential electors. Slaveholders thought slaves should be worth a full person, to recognize the wealth that slaves represented to the slaveholder. Northerners thought slaves should be worth 0 since they could not vote. Reapportionment act of 1929: congress limited itself to 435 members, to be reapportioned after each census by the secretary of commerce. The house must first pass articles of impeachment. It acts as a grand jury to decide if a trial is warranted. The senate is based on those articles. Unlike the house, only a third of senators run for reelection at a time. Therefore, senate rules remain in force while the house approves new rules for each new congress.
