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Does the 14th amendment deny state governments the power to keep citizens from voting by charging a poll tax?
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∙ 8y ago
The poll tax was one of many ways in which some states denied the right to vote to people, especially Afro-Americans, by charging a tax they could not afford to pay. There were many devices through which states sought to keep minorities from exercising their civil right to vote, but the poll tax has the distinction of being directly outlawed in the US Constitution itself. While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 deals with a variety of voter-repression methods, the 24th Amendment (1964) specifically prohibits taxing people for the right to vote in primary or general elections for Federal officials.
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Which amendment denies state governments the power to keep citizens from voting because of race or color?
15th Amendment
Denies state governments the power to keep citizens from voting by charging a poll tax?
24 I think
Which amendments deal with citizens voting rights?
19th amendment
What is the fiveteenth amendment?
The fifteenth amendment is about voting. It prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.
Which Constitutional amendment prevents governments from denying voting rights to people based on race or color?
15th Amendment
What rights outlawed barriers that prevented blacks from casting ballots?
The Voting Rights Act, signed in 1965, overcame the barriers that prevented blacks from voting. The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution denied federal and state governments from preventing citizens from voting but did not go far enough.
What did the fifteenth amendment declar?
it allowed citizens not to be stopped from voting "on account of race" -n
Which amendment describes rights of citizens representation and the voting and defined the obligation of oath takers and Civil War debts?
The fourteenth amendment (:
To whom does amendment 26 grant voting rights?
Citizens 18 years old & older.
what was the result of the 19th amendment (apex)?
voting rights were extended to all citizens regardless of gender
How did the Nineteenth Amendment affect the position of women in society?
women became voting citizens and participated in politics
What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution change about voting?
It gave the vote to 18- to 20-year-old citizens.
