Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Twenty-Fourth 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."


"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 1 of Amendment Twenty-four to the United States Constitution.  The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution deemed it unconstitutional for someone to be denied the right to vote upon failure to be able to pay for his or her vote.  It was the end of the poll tax area.  Going back to our great American notion of "We The People", we are now letting the poor into the increasingly less exclusive club.  This video talks about their dirty tactics of having a poll tax. 



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