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What is the 24th amendment?

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.

Sources

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1965/48

https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_polltax_1.html

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxiii/interpretations/155

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt23-1/ALDE_00001010/

What is the 23rd Amendments?

The History Part One

For the 23rd amendment, the District of Colmbia could not vote because the founding fathers did not want their

capital to be a state or in a state. For the longest time they could not vote after nearly 200 years. Now that the 23rd amendment is in place, the citizen of the dsitrist can now vote in the electoral college

23rd and 24th Amendments

Section 1.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Today's Implacations

The History Part 2

The District of Comlombia are coters and the eleciton taxes are no longer in use as they are banned

23rd Amendment Surpreme Court Cases

The 24th amendent ended poll taxes. Imagine you are register to vote in our first election but do you have enough money to do so?

This was declared unconstinal and was abloshed by the ratifaction of the 24th amendment.

Harper vs Virgina Board of Elections

After much research, there is no surpreme court cases involving the 23rd amendment.

Annie Harper was a Virgina resident that could not afford the poll tax of three and a half dollars so she fought and calimed that it violeted the Equal Protection Clause under the 14th amendent but the federal district court dismissed it and it went to the Surpreme court where it was a 6-3 favor in Harper and the poll tax was elimated.

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