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Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice-President, for elector 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 reasons of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Amendment 24, passed by Congress on August 27, 1962, and ratified on January 23, 1964, prevents Congress from prohibiting anyone from voting because they do not pay taxes:
The Twenty-fourth Amendment … prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax….
Poll taxes appeared in southern states after Reconstruction as a measure to prevent African Americans from voting, and had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1937 decision Breedlove v. Suttles. At the time of this amendment’s passage, five states still retained a poll tax: Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The amendment made the poll tax clearly unconstitutional at the federal level. However, it wasn't until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) that all poll taxes (for both state and federal elections) were officially declared unconstitutional because they violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.1
Because the elected positions of president, vice president, senators, and representatives are themselves unbiblical, the additional regulations found in Amendment 24 are extraneous. See Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” for more regarding these superfluous positions of leadership and the unbiblical nature of elections.
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End Notes
1. “Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>.
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