...The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. Read full entry
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What can you tell me about the I read Wikipedia entry
already. It was not very
helpful.
According to it the Supreme
Court declared such taxes
unconstitutional so why then
were five states still
allowing them and why was the
Amendment necessary if the SC
ruled them unconstitutional?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
wenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_
United_States_Constitution
Also feel free to re-write the
Wikipedia entry if you know
something about the subject.
This entry is poorly done.
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Try this: http://www.nps.gov/archive/mal u/documents/amend24.htm It's from the National Park Service. Looks like it could help ya and I hope it does. |
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24th amendment HELP!!?
i need 5 examples of the 24th
amendment of the united states
constitution and examples of
use in everyday life.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Annotations: Expansion of the Right to Vote Ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment marked the culmination of an endeavor begun in Congress in 1939 to effect elimination of the poll tax as a qualification for voting in federal elections. Property qualifications extend back to colonial days, but the poll tax itself as a qualification was instituted in eleven States of the South following the end of Reconstruction, although at the time of the ratification of this Amendment only five States still retained it. 1 Congress viewed the qualification as ''an obstacle to the proper exercise of a citizen's franchise'' and expected its removal to ''provide a more direct approach to participation by more of the people in their government.'' Congress similarly thought a constitutional amendment necessary, 2 inasmuch as the qualifications had previously escaped constitutional challenge on several grounds. 3 However, not long after ratification of the Amendment Congress by statute had impuned the continuing validity of the poll tax as a qualification in state elections 4 and the Supreme Court had voided it as a violation of the equal protection clause. 5 In Harman v. Forssenius, 6 the Court struck down a Virginia statute which eliminated the poll tax as an absolute qualification for voting in federal elections and gave federal voters the choice either of paying the tax or of filing a certificate of residence six months before the election. Viewing the latter requirement as imposing upon voters in federal elections an onerous procedural requirement which was not imposed on those who continued to pay the tax, the Court unanimously held the law to conflict with the new Amendment by penalizing those who chose to exercise a right guaranteed them by the Amendment. (1) Examples: Everytime you vote and don't have to pay for the previledge. J/S |
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