    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 108-109]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                              AMENDMENT XXIV.b

    [[Page 109]]
    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.

    Sec. 251. Right to vote not denied for failure to
    pay poll tax.

      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

      b The 24th amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
    proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 87th Congress
    on August 28, 1962, and was declared by the Administrator of General
    Services, in a proclamation dated February 4, 1964, to have been
    ratified by the legislatures of thirty-eight of the fifty States. The
    dates of these ratifications were: Illinois, November 14, 1962; New
    Jersey, December 3, 1962; Oregon, January 25, 1963; Montana, January 28,
    1963; West Virginia, February 1, 1963; New York, February 4, 1963;
    Maryland, February 6, 1963; California, February 7, 1963; Alaska,
    February 11, 1963; Rhode Island, February 14, 1963; Indiana, February
    19, 1963; Utah, February 20, 1963; Michigan, February 20, 1963;
    Colorado, February 21, 1963; Ohio, February 27, 1963; Minnesota,
    February 27, 1963; New Mexico, March 5, 1963; Hawaii, March 6, 1963;
    North Dakota, March 7, 1963; Idaho, March 8, 1963; Washington, March 14,
    1963; Vermont, March 15, 1963; Nevada, March 19, 1963; Connecticut,
    March 20, 1963; Tennessee, March 21, 1963; Pennsylvania, March 25, 1963;
    Wisconsin, March 26, 1963; Kansas, March 28, 1963; Massachusetts, March
    28, 1963; Nebraska, April 4, 1963; Florida, April 18, 1963; Iowa, April
    24, 1963; Delaware, May 1, 1963; Missouri, May 13, 1963; New Hampshire,
    June 12, 1963; Kentucky, June 27, 1963; Maine, January 16, 1964; and
    South Dakota, January 23, 1964. Ratification was completed on January
    23, 1964. Mississippi rejected the amendment on December 20, 1962.

      Harman v. Forssenius, 380 U.S. 528 (1965); Harper v. Virginia State
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    Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966).

      Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
    appropriate legislation.