[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


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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.