The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States allows United States Congress to levy income tax in the United States without apportioning it among the States according to population. The Constitutional Amendment was adopted to overrule the Supreme Court ruling in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust 157...
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits states and federal government from denying or abridging the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Fifteenth Amendment was the third and final of the Reconstruction Amendments, ratified in the aftermath of the...
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a consequential amendment protecting several civil and political rights of the people. The Constitutional Amendment establishes citizenship rights, equal protection under the law, and prohibits state and local government from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process...
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution embodies the doctrine of state sovereign immunity, which recognizes a state as a traditional sovereign entity that is immune from suit in federal courts unless it gives consent. What is the Eleventh Amendment in simple terms? Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity stands for...
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects the legislative and administrative power of the States from interference by the federal government. What is the Tenth Amendment in simple terms? The Tenth Amendment makes clear that the powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution...
The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects the fundamental rights not enumerated in the Bill of Rights or the body of the Constitution. The original meaning of the Ninth Amendment has been a topic of debate among scholars and justices over the last century and a...
