Indeed, pamphlets distributed to Oregon voters before they authorized the 1934 amendment to the state's Constitution allowing nonunanimous juries just about said as much.
On Thursday, Mr. Carney dismissed the argument, popular in some legal circles, that the amendment authorized the president to raise the debt ceiling.
Its first modern version appeared in the federal tax code in 1916, three years after the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax.
IN the next two weeks, Americans rushing to file their returns by April 15 are unlikely to pause to celebrate the centennial this year of the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax.
Since the federal income tax began in 1913 a steady, small current of individuals have asserted that the 16th Amendment, which authorized the income tax, was fraudulently adopted or that no law makes anyone liable for taxes.
Proponents of the Act including Trumbull and Wilson argued that Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment (enforcement power) authorized the federal government to legislate civil rights for the States.
The 1970 amendment, for example, authorized the U.S. EPA to set forth National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 SDWA 19966), passed in the same year, authorized the U.S. EPA to screen drinking water contaminants for similar activities.
The third authorized the Iraq War.
Who authorized the torture?
