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Which amendment later superseded Fuller's ruling against a federal income tax?

  • Fourteenth

  • Fifteenth

  • Sixteenth

  • Seventeenth

Answer

The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), which had declared a federal income tax unconstitutional. The amendment explicitly granted Congress the authority to levy and collect taxes on income from any source without apportionment among the states or regard to any census.
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