The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 24 (24th Amendment – Poll Taxes Barred)
The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 24 (Twenty-Fourth Amendment)
Amendment XXIV. (Poll Taxes Barred)
Passed by Congress August 27, 1962. Ratified January 23, 1964.
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 poll tax or other tax.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
More
- The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
- Twenty-fourth Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
- Twenty-fourth Amendment – Wikipedia
- Twenty-fourth Amendment – Findlaw
- The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription – The National Archives
- United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions – Law Library of Congress
- The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation – FDsys
- “Federalism and the Constitution: Limits on Congressional Power,” CRS Report RL30315
- “Ratification of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” CRS Report 97-922
- “The Constitutionality of Requiring Photo Identification for Voting: An Analysis of Crawford v. Marion County Election Board,” CRS Report RS22882
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