An Ordinance To repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution. The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention, on the twenty-fifth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under the said Constitution, were de

The Twenty-Fourth Amendment exists because some states turned voting into a purchase, and the price fell hardest on those least able to pay. In Alabama in 1960, the poll tax was $1.50. That doesn't sound like much. But if you hadn't voted before, you owed back taxes. Cumulative. For some families, that was a week's wages to cast a single ballot. After the Civil War, the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on race. Some states found other ways. Poll tax