The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913,
A) explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.
B) limited the total income tax Congress could levy on an individual.
C) set up the Social Security system.
D) forbade Congress from levying an income tax, but was later repealed.
E) required the federal government to balance its budget each year but it was repealed during the Great Depression.
Ans: A) explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.
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