The Actual Amendment

Amendment XXIV of the United States Constitution

Section 1. The rights 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 o 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.

Facts

40 out of the 50 states ratified the amendment.

The amendment was passed January 23, 1964.

This amendment ended the poll tax, and guaranteed the right of all U.S. Citizens to cast their votes.

Proposed by the 87th Congress by Senate Joint Resolution No. 29.

The amendment was rejected only by Mississippi.

Sources:

Cornell Law School. Retrieved April 16, 2007, from Constitution Annotation Web site:

http://www.law.cornell.edy/constitution/constitutio.amendmentxxiv.html

Retrieved April 16, 2007, from Twenty-Fourth Amendment Commentary Web site:

http://www.deafvote.com/why_vote/24th-amendment-explained.html

(1997, Oct.) Nps.gov. Retrieved April 16, 2007, from Twenty-Fourth Amendment Web site:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/documents/amend24.htm