History of the United States II / Unit 18 USH2 2554 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Four Amendments
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The idea
Entry 0756 records four amendments in seven years, among them the Sixteenth, letting Congress tax incomes, and the Seventeenth, electing senators by popular vote, both ratified in nineteen thirteen.
In practice
Two Populist planks of unit five written into the Constitution.
Where people slip
The Populists, entry 0756 says, lost their elections and won their argument.
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