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The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
In the First Amendment context, a plaintiff must show that 'a substantial number of [the law's] applications are unconstitutional, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.'
The amendment prohibits those who previously held government positions but later “engaged in insurrection” from running for various offices. However, the Supreme Court determined that the ...
[111] [112] [113] Likewise, the GAO report notes that the 15th Amendment, the 19th Amendment, the 24th Amendment, and the 26th Amendment ban states from appointing presidential electors upon the basis of polls where voting rights for eligible citizens are denied or abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex ...
(In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited the denial of suffrage by race. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment prohibited the denial of suffrage by sex. In 1964, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment prohibited poll taxes, which were used in some states to discriminate against African-Americans without explicit racial provisions.)
The proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in this crucial southwestern battleground would create a “fundamental right” to an abortion up until fetal viability, or about the 24th week ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The Twenty-fourth Amendment may refer to: Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India (1971), granting parliament the power to amend any part of the constitution; Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2001 (Ireland) Twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (2017) Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States ...