XXIV Amendment

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 no be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.



After the 15th amendment failed to reach its destination, the 24th amendment picked up the slack, eliminating poll taxes and tests that prevented blacks from voting.

President Lyndon B. Johnson worked with Martin Luther King Jr. to stop the blockades set up at voting polls.

Whites at voting booths had the control to issue literacy tests to black folks. The tests were sometimes as ridiculous as "recite the entire Constitution".

XXIII Amendment

Section 1.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


The 23rd amendment supplied the District of Columbia with three electoral votes, equal to the least populous State.

The license plate explains how Washington D.C., though not a State, it was a part of our country that paid taxes and had a decent population, therefore they deserve representation in elections.

 

Simply a breakdown of electoral votes from each state, including the District of Columbia, resulting from the 23rd amendment.

XXII Amendment

Section 1.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2.

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

With Franklin D. Roosevelt being elected to 4 terms (12yrs) as President, Republicans sought an end to such lengthy service. In 1951 the 22nd amendment was passed to prevent a person from serving as President for over two terms, or more than one term if they have acted or held the President position for over two years.

This cartoon highlights some of the critical matters President FDR promised to deal with. Many of which enabled him to be elected to four terms.

Thankfully We the People our protected from corrupt leaders, such as Venezuela's President, by our Constitution. Specifically the 22nd amendment.

XXI Amendment

Section 1.

The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2.

The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3.

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.


In response to the Great Depression along with all the criminality from Prohibition contenders, the 21st amendment was ratified to end Prohibition.






A wine drinker contributes his understanding of what the 18th amendment caused and the reason for the 21st amendment.








The Chicago newspaper reporting the repeal on Prohibition, now everyone's happy!

XX Amendment

Section 1.

The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

Section 2.

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Section 3.

If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

Section 4.

The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.

Section 5.

Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.  

Section 6.

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission. 

Condensing down the grocery list, the twentieth amendment essentially set an end to the terms of the President and Vice President on the 20th day of January and the Senators and Representatives terms on the 3rd day of January.

The twentieth amendment said that Congress was to meet once a year. 

Here the ducks are representative of the "lame duck" periods when Congress would be without a leader for two months.

Just a goofy little cartoon about the lame duck Congress. 

XIX Amendment

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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


As the pursuit of women's rights became more eminent in the early 20th century, the National American Woman Suffrage Association helped gain voting rights for women by the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920.

I like the illustrator's thinking here! The woman says, I'm voting so YOU be the housewife for once!













After a weak start, this video ends up being quite a laugh as the young people ask some passersby to sign a petition to repeal women's suffrage (19th amendment)!

XVIII Amendment

Section 1.

After one year fro the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2.

The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3.

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.



The eighteenth amendment made the sale of alcohol into and out of the United States, illegal.

Women's Christian Temperance Union here, expressing their dissatisfaction with the effects of alcohol-leading to the passing of the eighteenth amendment.

After the eighteenth amendment was ratified, there was plenty of crime, and it was likely unsuccessful.