Fifteenth_And_Sixteenth_Amendments_Compared

Fifteenth And Sixteenth Amendments Compared Amendment Paper The point of this paper is to establish a clear and direct connection between the fifteenth and sixteenth amendments of the constitution. Amendment fifteen states that “The rights of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”(America Past and Present 5th edition. Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, and Williams. p.A7). Meaning everyone can vote (everyone meaning men). Amendment fifteen also states that “The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”(America Past and Present p.A7). The way that this ties in to Amendment sixteen is simple. In this Amendment it states “that congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived (America Past and Present p.A7). By Amendment fifteen claiming all people can vote it also claims all people as tax payers. Giving immigrants and blacks the so called equal right of the white man. So, by congress making all these new tax payers they are also helping the economy and the government to grow in an unfounded way for it’s time. The fifteenth Amendment was amendment, vote, states, government, taxes, time, shall, present, past, pa7, meaning, fifteen, congress, whatever, way, united, tax, sixteenth, right, power, persons, people, payers, pay, paper, just, incomes, income, immigrants, help, going, fifteenth, everyone, citizen