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	FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Amendments
		The amendment was rejected by Kentucky on February 24, 1865, and by Mississippi on December 2, 1865.
		The amendment was rejected by Georgia on July 24, 1919; by Alabama on September 22, 1919; by South Carolina on January 29, 1920; by Virginia on February 12, 1920; by Maryland on February 24, 1920; by Mississippi on March 29, 1920; by Louisiana on July 1, 1920.
		This amendment was subsequently ratified by Virginia in 1952, Alabama in 1953, Florida in 1969, and Georgia and Louisiana in 1970.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /data/constitution/amendments.html (3846 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Nineteenth Amendment, adopted by referendum in May, 1998, did not itself amend those articles but rather introduced, on a temporary basis, a special mechanism whereby the Government could order their amendment once it was satisfied that certain commitments made by other parties to the Belfast Agreement had been complied with.
		Twelfth Amendment Bill (1992): This proposed to strengthen the constitutional ban on abortion by stating that an abortion could not be procured to protect the health, rather than the life, of the mother, and that risk to the life of the mother from suicide could not be grounds for an abortion.
		Twenty-fifth Amendment Bill (2002): This was a second attempt to strengthen the constitutional ban on abortion and to prevent risk of suicide being invoked as grounds for an abortion.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Amendments_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland (2210 words)

	Constitutional Amendments
		The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States.
		The amendment was rejected by Mississippi (and not subsequently ratified) on December 20, 1962.
		Note 1: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and two others, one of which failed of ratification and the other which later became the 27th amendment) were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First Congress on September 25, 1789.
	home.alltel.net /cnfdcwby/Confederate/amendments.htm (2719 words)

	Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amendment XXIV (the Twenty-fourth Amendment) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other type of tax.
		The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962 and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
		At the time of this amendment's passage, only five states still retained a poll tax.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (153 words)

	Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
		Amendment XI (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Mar. 5, 1794, by the Third Congress.
		Amendment XV (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Feb. 27, 1869, by the Fortieth Congress.
		Amendment XX (The proposed amendment, sometimes called the “Lame Duck Amendment,” was sent to the states Mar. 3, 1932, by the Seventy-second Congress.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0749825.html#A0749836 (1986 words)

	Notes on the Amendments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		The ratification of the 13th Amendment was a major victory for the North, and it was hoped that with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, the effects of slavery in the United States would quickly diminish.
		The last of the Reconstruction Amendments, the 15th Amendment was designed to close the last loophole in the establishment of civil rights for newly-freed fl slaves.
		Anthony later used the 15th Amendment as rationale for voting in a New York election, and though she was tried and fined for voting, the ordeal proved an impetus for the eventual guarantee of voting rights for women.
	www.usconstitution.net /constamnotes.html (4176 words)

	Agency Fee vs. Poll Tax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 24th, or antipoll-tax amendment, added in 1964, provided that citizens could not be denied the right to vote in presidential or congressional elections because of failure to pay a tax.
		The 25th amendment, added in 1967, established procedures for the appointment of a vice-president if that office should fall vacant and for the vice-president to become acting president if the president should prove unable to perform his duties.
		The next footnoted excerpt is the 24th Amendment to The Constitution of The United States of America.
	www.the-mechanic.com /polltax.html (615 words)

	PmWiki \| JessicaLeBlanc / Chapter2
		In 1869, the 15th amendment was proposed and the ratified in 1870.
		The 17th amendment was proposed in 1912 and ratified in 1913.
		The 24th amendment was proposed in 1962 and the ratified in 1964.
	falcon.tamucc.edu /~wiki/student/student.php/JessicaLeBlanc/Chapter2 (285 words)

	Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
		A bitter point of this claim is the gross misuse of it by the 24th and 25th Amendments.
		Once the 24th Amendment is held valid it follows that Article 31-C is also valid as the amending power is unlimited in its sweep.
		As the terms of amendment was expressly limited by the terms of Article 4 the Court had to ascertain such limit on a true interpretation.
	www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/73v4a2.htm (9239 words)

	Zzzptm Forums - Chapter 5 Vocab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Equal rights amendment — a constitutional amendment originally introduced in 1923 and passed by congress in 1978 and sent to the state legislatures for ratification, stating that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
		Poll taxes were declared void by the 24th amendment in 1964.
		24th amendment - the constitutional amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxes void.
	www.zzzptm.com /bbs/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2600 (520 words)

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		The 15th Amendment removed race as a barrier to voting (though it took another 94 years before the 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes).
		Plus, the Amendment would pass the House and Senate with a customary seven-year time limit for ratification, a clause usually tacked on to avoid the 203 years it took to ratify the 27th Amendment.
		Even if the Amendment passed the House and Senate, the Amendment would hang in State limbo for awhile, and thanks to the 22nd Amendment (or better yet, thanks to the 12th), Bush wouldn't have to deal with the ramifications of the expiration date anyway.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3798254&postID=107764877488467629 (689 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Battle Over Same Sex Marriage -- Amending the Constitution
		Notable additions in the 20th century include the 19th Amendment of 1920, which extended voting rights to women, and the 24th Amendment of 1964, which abolished poll taxes aimed at denying fls the right to vote.
		Amendments are so few and far between because the process to change the Constitution is a long and difficult one.
		The proposed amendment is then submitted to states for consideration, usually with some kind of time limit (seven years is common).
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/gay_marriage/amending.html (379 words)

	Government's 50 Greatest Endeavors: Expand the Right to Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		amendment, passed by Congress in 1962 and approved by three-fourths of the states in 1964, outlawed poll taxes or other taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections and granted Congress powers necessary to enforce that judgment.
		States and local governments were hard-pressed to find ways for Americans aged 18 to 21 to vote in federal but not in state and local elections.
		amendment, lowering the voting age to 18 in all elections, and it received the required approval by 38 state legislatures in just over three months.
	www.brook.edu /gs/cps/50ge/endeavors/vote.htm (914 words)

	African American Journey: 15th Amendment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that an American citizen shall not be discriminated against in exercising the right to vote.
		Amendment 15 was ratified on Feb. 3, 1870.
		The 15th Amendment does not specifically say that all fls must be allowed to vote.
	www.worldbook.com /features/aajourney/html/bh106.html (242 words)

	Ch4USConstitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All 27 amendments to the Constitution are by the former
		Amendment, ratified in 1870, extended the right to vote to fls and former slaves.
		This amendment is an exception to the prohibition, found in Article I, Section 9, of direct taxes unless in proportion to the population of the various States and gives the
	members.aol.com /jinx78550/Ch4USConstitution.html (2737 words)

	History Alive! 20th Century United States History Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 19th Amendment prohibits the both the federal government and the states from denying or limiting the right to vote on the basis of a person’s sex.
		This long-fought-for amendment is popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, after the activist who fought hard to improve conditions for women in the second half of the 19th century.
		The ratification of this amendment came during the conflict in Vietnam, when 18-year-olds were being drafted to serve in the military and risk their lives fighting in a foreign land.
	www.teachtci.com /essays/ha20cah/topic03.asp (1234 words)

	Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States ... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	F A I R V O T E -- the Center for Voting and Democracy
		As early as 1876, the Supreme Court interpreted the 15th amendment not to mean that African Americans had an inherent right to vote, "the right of suffrage is not a necessary attribute of national citizenship" U.S. v.
		This amendment was proposed by the Eighty-seventh Congress in Joint Resolution No. 29, which was approved by the Senate on Mar. 27, 1962, 77-15, and by the House of Representatives on Aug. 27, 1962.
		Then when South Dakota became the 38th state to pass the amendment, 512 days later on January 23, 1964, the bill was ratified as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=875 (1352 words)

	FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Twenty-Fourth Amendment
		Ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment marked the culmination of an endeavor begun in Congress in 1939 to effect elimination of the poll tax as a qualification for voting in federal elections.
		3 However, not long after ratification of the Amendment Congress by statute had impuned the continuing validity of the poll tax as a qualification in state elections 4 and the Supreme Court had voided it as a violation of the equal protection clause.
		Forssenius, 6 the Court struck down a Virginia statute which eliminated the poll tax as an absolute qualification for voting in federal elections and gave federal voters the choice either of paying the tax or of filing a certificate of residence six months before the election.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /data/constitution/amendment24 (563 words)

	RU\|California brings back the poll tax
		Ravenwood - 01/21/03 06:22 PM When the Fifteenth Amendment was passed in 1870, it guaranteed the right of every man to vote, regardless of race.
		It took almost 100 years, and the passage of the 24th Amendment in 1964, to keep states from limiting people's right of suffrage.
		In 2003, there is a movement in the People's Republic of California to keep people from exercising their unalienable Second Amendment rights.
	www.ravnwood.com /archives/000977.php (343 words)

	DAR \| National Society - Manual for Citizenship - Summary of Amendments
		11th Amendments (1798) — A State may not be sued in a Federal court by a citizen of another State or of a foreign country.
		23rd Amendment (1961) — Electors are authorized for the District of Columbia.
		24th Amendment (1964) — Poll tax banned as a requirement of eligibility to vote in Federal elections.
	www.dar.org /natsociety/Citizenship.cfm?TP=Show&ID=73 (368 words)

	amend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Congress proposes an amendment by 2/3 vote (most common way), or
		Legislatures of 2/3 of the states require Congress to summon a national constitutional convention to consider amendments
		Practices and customs sometimes modify, replace, or extend government under the Constitution (for example, political parties play a big role in the government but are not even mentioned in the Constitution)
	www.ripley.k12.oh.us /curtisr/amend.htm (96 words)

	BSEF - EU legislation
		EU Directive amending for the 24th time Council Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations
		The twenty fourth amendment of 6 February 2003 prohibits the use of the brominated flame retardants Penta-BDE and Octa-BDE in all applications for the EU Market from 15 August 2004.
		The fourth amendment of 27 July 1976 prohibited the use of PBB in textile applications only, since November 1984.
	www.bsef.com /regulation/eu_legislation/eu_legislation.php (1697 words)

	Voting Rights and African Americans
		The amendment prohibited the tax only in federal elections, but the Supreme Court declared in Harper v.
		Virginia State Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966) that the tax was unconstitutional in state elections because it violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection of the laws guarantee.The amendment led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
		Although, the author focuses on First Amendment issues, his consideration of the political activism of the civil rights movement and the impact of that activisim on American culture and laws makes this article worth the time it takes to read it.
	academic.udayton.edu /race/04needs/98newburg.htm (2823 words)

	Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - dKosopedia
		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.
		The text of the 24th Amendment reads as follows:
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php?title=24th_Amendment&redirect=no (184 words)

	24: Poll taxes abolished
		The 14th and 15th amendments assuring equal protection and voting rights were a century old, and still, in some corners of the nation, local laws were used to keep fl voters away from the ballot box.
		In eight states in the South, more than 100 counties used some form of legal blockade or intimidation to keep fl voters from registering.
		The 24th Amendment passed with little trouble in 1964.
	www.postgazette.com /nation/20021127amendment_24p9.asp (216 words)

	Later Amendments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bill of Rights {Amendments #1-10} were ratified in 1791,
		all of the other amendments have been ratified one-by-one as follows:
		the only one to void a previous constitutional amendment {#18}.
	www.haddonfield.k12.nj.us /hmhs/academics/social_studies/later_amendments.htm (93 words)

	congress
		14th Amendment: due process and equal protection, applying many of the Bill of Rights to the states
		15th Amendment: right to vote may not be denied based on race
		Procedure is vital to passage of bills and amendments
	userpages.umbc.edu /~davisj/congress.html (315 words)

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