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H.J.R. No. 39
1 this article by appropriate legislation."
2 SECTION 2. While the congress was still deliberating on the
3 poll tax amendment in August of 1962, President John Fitzgerald
4 Kennedy urged the United States House of Representatives to follow
5 the lead of the Senate and propose the amendment for the
6 consideration of the state legislatures ". . . to finally
7 eliminate this outmoded and arbitrary bar to voting. American
8 citizens should not have to pay to vote." And in witnessing the
9 issuance of Amendment XXIV's certificate of validity 17 months
10 later, Kennedy's successor, President Johnson, noted that
11 abolishing the tax requirement ". . . reaffirmed the simple but
12 unbreakable theme of this Republic. Nothing is so valuable as
13 liberty, and nothing is so necessary to liberty as the freedom to
14 vote without bans or barriers. ... . A change in our Constitution
15 is a serious event. . .. There can now be no one too poor to vote."
16 SECTION 3. Although Amendment XXIV has been the law of the
17 land since 1964, some 13 years following its effective date, it
18 received symbolic post-ratification in 1977 from the General
19 Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as reflected in the
20 Congressional Record of March 28, 1977, which printed the full text
21 of Virginia's post-ratification; 12 years after that, the amendment
22 gained ceremonial post-ratification in 1989 from the General
23 Assembly of the State of North Carolina, as reflected in the
24 Congressional Record of June 6, 1989, which printed the full text of
25 North Carolina's post-ratification; and nearly 13 years after that,
26 the amendment acquired its most recent post-ratification in 2002
27 from the Legislature of the State of Alabama, as reflected in the2
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 81st Texas Legislature, House Joint Resolution, House Bill 39, legislative document, June 3, 2009; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149256/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.