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The official Joint Resolution of Congress proposing what became the 24th Amendment as contained in the National Archives. Congress proposed the Twenty-fourth Amendment on August 27, 1962. [17] [18] The amendment was submitted to the states on September 24, 1962, after it passed with the requisite two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate. [15]
Rutherford voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, [2] [3] but voted in favor of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [4] He was the first chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The Harper ruling was one of several that relied on the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment rather than the more direct provision of the 24th Amendment. In a two-month period in the spring of 1966, Federal courts declared unconstitutional poll tax laws in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9.
The 24th Amendment was enacted, by the Congress government headed by Indira Gandhi, to abrogate the Supreme Court ruling in Golaknath v. State of Punjab . The judgement reversed the Supreme Court's earlier decision which had upheld Parliament's power to amend all parts of the Constitution, including Part III related to Fundamental Rights.
After the Kennedy assassination, President Lyndon Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made racial discrimination and segregation illegal, [25] as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and 24th amendment, which abolished poll taxes and other means of keeping blacks and the poor from registering to vote or from ...
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The ruling was overturned with the ratification of the 24th Amendment in 1971. ... Ladakh was created as a new Union Territory after being split off from Jammu and ...