Unit 3 Exam Bonus Question: Voting Rights Amendments
The amendments below all deal with equal protection under the law.
Source 1
19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (1919 CE)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex [gender].
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Source 2
24th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (1964 CE)
Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors 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 reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
Section 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Source 3
Excerpt, 26th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (1971 CE)
Section 1
...the right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Question 1
How do the Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments ensure equal protection of the law and were each a government response to social change movements?
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