page_title: 87th United States Congress
section_title: Constitutional amendments
hierarchical_section_title: 87th United States Congress / Constitutional amendments
caption_attribution_description: Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
context_page_description: The 87th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1963, during the final weeks of the administration of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the first two years of the administration of U.S. President John Kennedy. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950, along with 2 seats temporarily added in 1959. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
context_section_description: March 29, 1961: Twenty-third Amendment ratified, extending the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
  August 27, 1962: Twenty-fourth Amendment approved by Congress and sent to the states for consideration.  It would prohibit both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was later ratified on January 23, 1964.
caption: The official Joint Resolution of Congress proposing what became the 24th Amendment as contained in the National Archives
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