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Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes
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The Impossibility of Amendments to the Constitution
Today, it seems impossible to ever have an amendment to the Constitution. Why was that necessary? Because it's a big move, right? The taxes, if levied by a federal government, could ultimately be used to undo slavery. And that was sort of one of the fears, right? So that's in the Constitution, but the Supreme Court in the late 19th century, has a sense of how big a deal it was.
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