Instructor: Mark Pearcy. In this lesson, we'll be looking at the expressed powers of the United States Congress. Learn what these powers are and examples of them, and then you'll be able to test your knowledge of them with a quiz.
The 17, 19, 23, 24, and 26 amendments have expanded voting rights.
Lewis's bill, the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015, would give the attorney general more power to place federal observers at the polls and impose new geographic standards for deciding which states need federal permission to change voting laws. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a co-sponsor of the bill, said, It is a bill for the next generation, and helps protect the legacy of the previous generation who fought so hard five decades ago for these voting rights protections.