5 days until it is time to vote! YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE! U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XXIV this is very recent! A must read! The 24th Amendment Defined Date Proposed The 24th Amendment was proposed on August 27th, 1962 Date Passed The 24th Amendment was passed on January 23rd, 1964 President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson was the President of the United States during the ratification of the 24th Amendment Stipulations of the 24th Amendment The 24th Amendment expresses the inability of a Federal or State government to deny a citizen of the United States the right to vote as a result of failure to satisfy the required payments of a poll tax The poll tax was a tax that was prevalent within Southern states; as its name suggests, a poll tax was instituted in order to validate an individual’s right to vote subsequent to the payment of the tax; poll taxes were typically instituted with regard to specific races and socioeconomic classes in lieu of institution based on property and possessions The 24th Amendment eliminated applicable Grandfather Clauses, legal exploitation, and prejudicial examinations with regard to the classification of the individuals required to satisfy a poll tax payment in order to retain the right to vote 24th Amendment Facts The poll tax was deemed unconstitutional in 1966; the Supreme Court had deemed that it was in direct violation of the protection clause passed in the 14th Amendment Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi were the only states to enforce a poll tax at the time of the ratification of the 24th Amendment; many lobbyists suspected the poll tax of further disenfranchising African Americans and prospective Northern sympathizers through the enforcement of contingency-based suffrage
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:13:23 +0000
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