All started with giving women the vote.
Next thing you know Senators are picked by popular vote and the IRS is helping themselves to a piece of every business and individuals income, from whatever source.
Not to mention FDR, Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, and Hussein Obama.
Worst thing to happen to the Republic since Lincoln.
Next thing you know Senators are picked by popular vote and the IRS is helping themselves to a piece of every business and individuals income, from whatever source.
You reversed the order. First, income tax (16th Amendment), then popular election of Senators (17th Amendment), then women's suffrage (19th Amendment). All three thanks to the Progressive Movement.
Or sooner...
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.
--Tocqueville
He wrote this BEFORE the 18 year old heads of mush got the 'right' to vote.