Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
GPTKB entity
Statements (23)
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gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkb:law |
| gptkbp:adoptedBy |
January 23, 1964
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| gptkbp:affects |
voting rights
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| gptkbp:appliesTo |
federal elections
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| gptkbp:category |
Voting rights in the United States
Civil rights legislation |
| gptkbp:enforcedBy |
gptkb:United_States_Congress
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| gptkbp:followedBy |
gptkb:Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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| gptkbp:locationSigned |
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
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| gptkbp:partOf |
gptkb:United_States_Constitution
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| gptkbp:precededBy |
Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution
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| gptkbp:prohibits |
denial or abridgment of the right to vote in federal elections by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax
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| gptkbp:proposedBy |
gptkb:United_States_Congress
August 27, 1962 |
| gptkbp:purpose |
prohibit poll taxes in federal elections
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| gptkbp:ratifiedBy |
gptkb:United_States
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| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
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| gptkbp:section |
2
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| gptkbp:textBegins |
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.
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gptkb:constitutional_law
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4
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