Voting Rights Amendments in the U.S. Constitution

December 3, 2025

Photo: Rep Joyce Beatty (Ohio) preparing to vote for the Equal Rights Amendment, Office of Joyce Beatty Wikimedia

Voting Rights Amendments in the U.S. Constitution

Fifteenth Amendment

Section 1 - 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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude–

Section 2 - The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Nineteenth 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.

 

Twenty-Fourth 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 not 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.

 

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Section 1 - The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section 2- The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.