Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Amendment XXIV (the Twenty-fourth Amendment) of the United States Constitution prevents the right to vote in federal elections from being abridged due to failure to pay a poll tax or other tax. Thirteen years after it was proposed and nearly two years after the measure had been passed by the United States Senate 77-16, the 24th Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964.
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The text of the 24th Amendment reads as follows:
History
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Poll taxes had been enacted in eleven Southern states after Reconstruction as a measure to prevent poor black people from voting. At the time of this amendment's passage, only five states still retained a poll tax.
Analysis
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Makes poll taxes and other such tools used to prevent African-Americans from voting illegal.