Constitution questions?

Question

please help me by also indicating which article the answers are from

which taxes are expressly forbidden?

and the senate gets to do what to all presidential appointments and foreign treaties

thanks so much

Answer 1

Article. I, Section 2

(Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was modified by the 14th Amendment, section 2.)

Amendment 16 - Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913. Note History

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

In the context of the Constitution, apportionment means that each state gets a number appropriate to its population. For example, Representatives are apportioned among the states, with the most populous getting the greater share. Direct taxes (of which there are none today) were to be charged to the states in this manner as well.  

This way it kept special interest out and the people were treated equally. The Constitution does not have to forbid anything to prevent the federal government from action because it was designed to LIMIT the government by stating that all things not giving them authority belongs to the states and the people (10th amendment). The government does NOT give us our rights, they are God given as stated in the Declaration of Independence. We should go back to enumeration of taxes.

The Senate gets to advise and consent.

Article. II, Section 2

"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law"

Answer 2

The first is the prohibition on any tax or duty on goods exported from any State. That's in Article One, Section 9. The second concerns the Senate advising and consenting to Presidential appointments and ratifying treaties. That's in Article Two, Section 2. Now go and read the document so you don't wind up as ignorant as most of your elders.

Answer 3

A)  The only answer I know to this question is that prior to the Sixteenth Amendment, the Federal government could not levy an income tax.  I know of no taxes now expressly forbidden by the constitution, but I may simply be underinformed.

B)  They ratify them.  (It means to approve).  This is in Article One of the Constitution.