Which amendment was NOT added to overturn a Supreme Court decision?
a. Eleventh, prohibiting a citizen of a foreign country from suing a state
b. Fourteenth, declaring that blacks could be citizens
c. Sixteenth, granting Congress the power to levy an income tax
d. Nineteenth, giving women the right to vote
e. Twenty-Sixth, giving 18-year-olds the right to vote
ANS: D
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