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The amendment was proposed by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas on July 2, 1954. The amendment was agreed to without any discussion or debate and was included in Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736). [10]
Aug 24, 2018 · See Davidson, pp. 17-18; The Congressional Record, July 2, 1954, p. 9604; and The New York Times, July 3, 1954, p. 6 for verbatim accounts of the amendment’s introduction. 9 The predecessor of Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code was enacted as part of the Tariff Act of 1913. But the legislative history of the act contains no reason or ...
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Brown v. Board of Education. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Oct 14, 2018 · Whitney Untiedt, Lighting the Way: The Johnson Amendment Stands Strong against Dark Money in Politics, 6 Emory Corp. Governance & Accountability Rev. 37 (2019). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/ecgar/vol6/iss1/4. This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Emory Law Scholarly Commons.
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Jan 10, 2020 · The Johnson Amendment was adopted in 1954, restricting tax-exempt churches from participating in political campaigns or risk losing their tax-exempt status. Some churches have complained the restriction inhibits their religious expression.
Dec 2, 2017 · The “Johnson Amendment” is a provision of the tax code that prohibits a certain class of nonprofits, including charities and churches, from engaging in candidate election campaigns. Named after its author, then-Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Johnson Amendment was passed into law as part of the Internal Revenue Act of 1954.
Feb 3, 2017 · Here are five basic questions that we can answer. 1. What is the Johnson Amendment? The Johnson Amendment regulates what tax-exempt organizations such as churches can do in the political...
