Amendments 23-27
23rd Amendment- This gave the District of Columbia the right to appoint electors for the Presidential Elections. So the people living in Washington D.C. have the same right as anyone else does to vote for the President. The number of electoral votes the District of Columbia has is limited to the number of votes the smallest state has. This was ratified March 29, 1961.
24th Amendment- This amendment simply made it illegal for the government to tax the person who wanted to exercise their right and vote. This was a strategy that was used so that the poor black people would not be able to vote. “Despite that constitutional mandate, African Americans found themselves essentially disenfranchised by the end of the nineteenth century. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and “grandfather” clauses—which decreed that men whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, were permitted to vote—prevented blacks from exercising their political rights.” (Beschloss 242) This new amendment gave mush more rights to the people because now they actually could vote without charge or being tested and the government had the power to enforce this. “The Twenty- Fourth Amendment, which Congress ratified in 1964, had abolished poll taxes, but the Voting Rights Act empowered the attorney general to enforce it.” (Beschloss 242)
25th Amendment- This deals with the procedures of a vacancy of a President or Vice President. Section one says that if the POTUS dies or resigns, then the VPOTUS must take over for him. Section two says that if there is a vacancy in the Vice presidency, then the POTUS must nominate someone and the HOR and Senate must vote on this nominee. The nominee must receive the majority in order to assume the position. Section three says that the POTUS must send a written document to the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore telling them of his temporary resignation. The VPOTUS will then take over in this position. Section four says that if the POTUS is physically or mentally incapable of doing his job, then letters from the executive cabinet must be sent to the President Pro Tempore and the SOTHR. The VPOTUS must then fill this vacancy.
26th Amendment- Simply put, this amendment allows anyone who is 18 and older to participate in elections.
27th Amendment- This says that the pay for a legislator may not change until after an election has taken place.
Beschloss, Michael. Our Documents. Oxford University Press: New York. 2003
Readers Digest, The Story of America, Creating a System of Government. Readers Digest Association: Pleasantville New York 1975.
24th Amendment- This amendment simply made it illegal for the government to tax the person who wanted to exercise their right and vote. This was a strategy that was used so that the poor black people would not be able to vote. “Despite that constitutional mandate, African Americans found themselves essentially disenfranchised by the end of the nineteenth century. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and “grandfather” clauses—which decreed that men whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, were permitted to vote—prevented blacks from exercising their political rights.” (Beschloss 242) This new amendment gave mush more rights to the people because now they actually could vote without charge or being tested and the government had the power to enforce this. “The Twenty- Fourth Amendment, which Congress ratified in 1964, had abolished poll taxes, but the Voting Rights Act empowered the attorney general to enforce it.” (Beschloss 242)
25th Amendment- This deals with the procedures of a vacancy of a President or Vice President. Section one says that if the POTUS dies or resigns, then the VPOTUS must take over for him. Section two says that if there is a vacancy in the Vice presidency, then the POTUS must nominate someone and the HOR and Senate must vote on this nominee. The nominee must receive the majority in order to assume the position. Section three says that the POTUS must send a written document to the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore telling them of his temporary resignation. The VPOTUS will then take over in this position. Section four says that if the POTUS is physically or mentally incapable of doing his job, then letters from the executive cabinet must be sent to the President Pro Tempore and the SOTHR. The VPOTUS must then fill this vacancy.
26th Amendment- Simply put, this amendment allows anyone who is 18 and older to participate in elections.
27th Amendment- This says that the pay for a legislator may not change until after an election has taken place.
Beschloss, Michael. Our Documents. Oxford University Press: New York. 2003
Readers Digest, The Story of America, Creating a System of Government. Readers Digest Association: Pleasantville New York 1975.
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