24th AMENDMENT

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Congress saw poll tax as a clear infringement of citizen's franchise, otherwise understood as civil rights, and sought to reverse it so there would be significantly more political involvement from the common man. Ratification brought considerable focus upon the questionable nature of poll tax, encouraging the Supreme Court to ultimately void its validity as directly violating the equal protection clause. Three sources cited in the bibliography of this 4-page paper.