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24th Amendment: Abolition of the Poll Tax. NCC Staff. Mon, February 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM UTC. As part of the National Constitution Center’s 27 Amendments (In 27 Days) project, each day we will ...
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday cited the 24th Amendment in response to a Florida bill that would require felons to pay off all their court fees and costs before voting. “The right of citizens of ...
Amendment XXIV: “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 ...
They ignored the 24 th Amendment and restricted themselves to the equal-protection clause of the 14 th in deciding the Indiana case. Narrowing their vision didn’t help them reach a consensus.
RATIFYING the US Constitution’s 24th amendment was a crucial movement for US citizens. On January 23, 1964, the US passed the 24th Amendment. First proposed by Congress on August 27, 1962, the ...
Fifty years ago today, the 24th Amendment, prohibiting the use of poll taxes as voting qualifications in federal elections, became part of the U.S. Constitution.Poll taxes were among the devices used ...
The 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes and other taxes in federal elections. It was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. The United States Supreme Court later expanded the reach of the ...
I just read an interesting, snarky, and probably not super well-informed post on Wonkette about a case facing the Supreme Court involving an Indiana law that requires voters to produce a photo ID at ...
Poll Taxes and the 24th Amendment. Senate Associate Historian Don Ritchie discussed the history behind poll taxes and the 24th Amendment.
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