...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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The Twenty-Fourth Amendment What was the poll tax? What do
you think might have happened
if the poll tax had not been
abolished?
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The poll tax was just that -- a tax people had to pay for the right to enter the polling station and cast a vote. The poll tax was one of the Jim Crow laws created after the Civil War as a means of keeping poor blacks away from the polling booths. By the time of the 24th amendment, though, only five states were still using it. It was dying by then, and would have been made useless anyway by the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In that sense, then, we can see that the real purpose of the amendment was symbolic. |
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment?
a. prohibited discrimination
in employment or public
accommodations based on race.
b. granted negroes the right
to vote.
c. outlawed the use of
literacy tests in order to
register to vote.
d. outlawed the grandfather
clause and the White primary.
e. prohibited the use of poll
taxes in federal elections.
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just be glad hes getting them. Intelligence isnt knowing the answer, its knowing where to get them. They can get them here or their book, its all the same. Just as long as your exposed to history. To many of our kids these days are not taught history. The progressives infesting our school systems know that true history doesnt support their causes.. |
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Twenty-fourth Amendment?
could someone please explain
this to me in terms i can
understand?
it says, "The right of
citizens of the US 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."
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It just means you don't ever have to pay a tax to vote. Poll taxes used to be a tactic used to keep immigrants/minorities/poor people away from the polls on election day. |
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