Pros And Cons Of The 24th Amendment

Sophia Pienciak
Mr. Kotlewski
Period 8
17 January 2017
Latter Amendments Essay
Martha Griffiths a lawyer once said, “This amendment [the Equal Rights Amendment], if passed, would be like a beacon which should awaken nine sleeping Rip Van Winkle 's to the fact that the twentieth century is passing into history.” A summary of the twenty-fourth amendment is banning poll taxes. That means that in the 1800’s to 1900’s they used to make you pay to vote for a President or a Vice President. This amendment was important to our country. Therefore, the 24th Amendment is an important amendment, there are pros and cons to this amendment, and is positive and negative.
The 24th Amendment is an important amendment: banning poll taxes. The amendment

There are many pros and cons to the 24th Amendment. Also, now that this amendment has happened, there are many more voters. After the amendment was passed everyone could vote, so the vote was a true vote with everyone involved. Now that this has happened there are many more voters. The vote will be a true vote because now everyone is involved. This is good for the nation because it will be fair to everyone. Many new black voters were allowed to vote, and just because of the amendment there 's lead to less discrimination. After the 24th Amendment being amended they had a, “quarter of a million new black voters by the end of the year. A decade later that number had more than tripled, and blacks also began serving in Congress and state legislative bodies in record numbers” (Kauffmann). This is great, and now we are completely equal, therefore this amendment did help in equality a little. It lead to many great things ' afterword. When the African Americans voted, the white people treated them like they were normal, unlike what they used to do. Now they have more people in state legislatures and Congress, so they will have more ideas. Even after the amendment was passed people still did discriminate. Even though it gave everyone a right to vote, somehow people still found a way to discriminate. They did things like literacy tests, which gave the disadvantage to the people who didn’t have an education and the poor. Some people didn 't like this amendment, so

This amendment affected the nation positively and negatively. Now the nation has many more votes. Not just the people who are rich, have the vote. Now, there, “‘can be no one too poor to vote.’...the right of all U.S. citizens to freely cast their votes has been secured” ("Today in Civil Rights History: The 24th Amendment Prohibits Poll Taxes.") All the people now can vote through the nation for no cost. This has affected so many people because now they have pay. This helped the people not waste as much money trying to vote. So now they can use that money toward different things. It has helped everybody be equal. Many new black voters were allowed to vote, and just because of the amendment there 's lead to less discrimination. When, “Congress passed that act in 1965, and in combination with the 24th Amendment, it resulted in a quarter of a million new black voters by the end of the year. A decade later that number had more than tripled, and blacks also began serving in Congress and state legislative bodies in record numbers” ("The Importance of the 24th Amendment."). This is great, and now we are completely equal, therefore this amendment did help in equality. It lead to many great things ' afterword. When the African Americans voted, the white people treated them like they were normal, unlike what they used to do. Now they have more people in state legislatures and Congress, so they will have more ideas. Now everyone is equal, and the 24th Amendment helped