Today in Supreme Court History: July 12, 1909

7/12/1909: 16th Amendment is submitted to the states.

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

Something of a clawback by the North, after the three-fifths rule had in effect become a five-fifths rule after the end of Reconstruction and the imposition of Jim Crow.

[Dr. Ed]

I'd argue clawback by the South -- the Northern states had higher incomes and hence would pay more per capita.