Promote healthy sexual behaviors, strengthen community capacity, and increase access to quality services to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and their complications. STDs refer to more than 25 infectious organisms that are transmitted primarily through sexual activity.
The Supreme Court declared the poll tax unconstitutional. In the meantime, the 1964 ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed imposition of a poll tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections, and the federal. poll tax is a tax levied as a prerequisite for voting. After. (1865â1877)âthe twelve-year period of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861â1865)âmany southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Origins: Poll taxes were used in most Southern states as a means of discouraging low-income black voters from participating in elections.he 24th Amendment bans the use of poll taxes in federal elections. It does not ban the use of poll taxes in state elections, though a subsequent Supreme Court decision has done so.