Saturday, May 3, 2014

Amendment #24
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.
The twenty-fourth amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes to abridge voting rolls.

The picture above shows how americans were upset about how the government used poll taxes to abridge voting rolls. Americans do not want to pay the poll tax so this created protests against the twenty-fourth amendment.

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