He believes it was ignorance. Farmers in Jefferson's time where valuable because they fed the nation.
This of course is still true and what makes them valuable today as well.
Farmers in Jefferson's time where often wealthy and highly educated as well this made them valuable.
Today we have many professions that have educated people doing them and education is the most valuable commodity in a citizen because an educated citizen makes good choices in their vote.
The effect of the 16th Amendment was that b) It granted Congress the
power to tax incomes. The 16th Amendment to the United States
Constitution allowed Congress to levy taxes without apportioning it to
that specific state or basing it on the United States Census
(apportioning it to the state and according to their respective numbers)
and this included all taxes except income tax.
I think A hope this helps
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It was a easy way to give everyone a place in society. I was organized and easy to maintain for the European governemnt, but it wasn't a fair system because peasants and serf were unable to work upwards in the society.
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