The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment says that no state "can deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." the death penalty has been challenged as a violation of this clause because of the .

Why was the sixteenth amendment important to woodrow wilson’s efforts to regulate the economy? a) the sixteenth amendment lowered interest rates charged by banks. b) the sixteenth amendment allowed congress to levy an income tax c) the sixteenth amendment lowered tariffs on imported goods d) the sixteenth amendment allowed congress to break up monopolies