Which amendment gives states power to control voting and elections? 10pts?
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well I think they already had seperate votes but the 10th amendment to the consitution (added as part of the bill of rights) gives Any power that is not specifically granted to the federal government and that doesn't directly prohibit the states from using it, can be used by state government and the people.
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Amendments huh?  Those are voted on by our elected congress.  They are part of the constitution.  Besides electing people to office, many states have votes on various ballot measures or propositions.\n\nYou should have received a sample ballot by now so long as your voter registration was up to date and recieved by the deadline.  Check with your county clerk or registrar of voters, they will be able to tell you what races and ballot questions you'll get to vote on.
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Extending the vote to black people-15th amendment\nExtending the vote to women-19th amendment\nNo poll tax-that was used to keep poor blacks from voting-24th amendment\nLowered voting age from 21 to 18-26th amendment.\n\nJudicial review is the power of the courts to interpret the laws as passed by the legislature and signed into law by the executive. Chief Justice Marshall extended that, giving the Supreme Court the right to declare laws unconstitutional
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in July 1868, guaranteed basic civil rights to all citizens; it was intended to persuade Southern states to grant suffrage to blacks by threatening a reduction of their congressional representation. To further the cause of black suffrage, the Radical Republican Congress, which had swept away the Southern regimes organized under presidential Reconstruction, required ex-Confederate states to adopt new state constitutions allowing black suffrage before senators and representatives from those states would be readmitted to Congress. The United States was thus faced with a situation in which all the ex-Confederate states granted blacks the right to vote, while 16 of the loyal Union states still denied black suffrage.\n\nTo remedy the inequity and to help shore up the Southern Radical Republican Reconstruction regimes, a 15th Amendment to the Constitution was proposed in February 1869. It stated simply that "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." There was much debate in Congress about what should be included in the Amendment. Henry Adams remarked that the 15th Amendment was "more remarkable for what it does not than for what it does contain."\n\nIt did not guarantee blacks the right to hold office, which many congressmen felt should be included. It did not offer a blanket guarantee of the right to vote because many Radical Republicans feared that would void the disenfranchisement of ex-Confederates. Many states, North and South, required payment of poll taxes, property ownership, or literacy as a condition of voting. The 15th Amendment did not address any of those stipulations. Feminists, especially, fought against the amendment because women were not included in the guarantee of suffrage.
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The Amendments to the US Constitution; most State constitutions; state and federal laws.
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A.\n\nThe House was granted its own exclusive powers: the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach officials, and elect the President in electoral college deadlocks.
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In some states, the state legislature has to vote to certify the elections.  In others, it is the Executive branch.
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Marbury v. Madison.  But the fact is, the Tenth Amendment was then and has been violated with this "supremacy."  The federal jurisdiction was supposed to be limited to those powers granted in the Constitution.
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"Section 1. The right of the 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. \n\nSection 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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Power to the people! The popular vote should rule all....
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Three features of our government which protect the rights of few against a majority include: \n\nFirst, The US Constitution which protects against unfair laws and provides for specific individual rights.  There is also a process to update the Constitution to better meet the needs of the people.\n\nSecondly, The US Senate in which each state get 2 Senators despite the size of the state.  A senator from Wyoming has just as much voting power as a Senator from California despite the fact that the Senator from California represents about 60 times as many people.  This prevents the majority in California from dominating smaller states.\n\nFinally, the electoral college provides a very clever balance between small and large states.  Every state has at least 3 electoral votes again providing some balance to the population difference of the larger states.  If we use the same example of Wyoming and California, California has 15 times the number of electoral votes as Wyoming but more than 60 times the number of people.  This disproportional allocation of voting power insures smaller states are not completely forgotten during a Presidential election.
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These are two different questions.  Look up electoral college and constitutional amendment in a civics book or online.  As for what Kentucky should do, let them do what they want - Nebraska and Maine have already taken similar actions.
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First, there would need to be a Constitutional Amendment passes to change the way the President and Vice President is selected. This usually takes a couple years to do. It could be done faster, but it would need to be approved by 3/4 of the states, and a lot of them are smaller and benefit from the electoral system more than they would from a popular vote. So you need to convince them that it is needed.\n\nAfter that, Congress would then need to work out all the various details on doing a national popular election. As it is now, that is left to the States. There are very few laws on the federal level dealing with elections. And after this, I'm sure there would be several states fighting these laws in court for a few years, claiming the new laws were unconstitutional because they infringe on the State's rights.\n\nWe have less than two years before the next election. I don't think that is enough time to get all this done. A better idea (and quicker) is to convince your state legislators to change the way they distribute their votes. Most states (48 of them) give all electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote in the state. Get your state to change it to distribute it more proportional to the popular vote (unless you already live in one of the two states that do something like this).
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The US is a democratic-republic.  Our power as the electorate is limited to our vote, primarily, although we can form groups and try to lobby for change, as well.\n\nThe idea that the individual has power is not part of the makeup of our form of government, aside from the rights enumerated in the Constitution, legislated, or interpreted by the Supreme Court.
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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution Ratified February 3, 1870.  However it was not until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that actually made it easy for all races to vote.\n\nIn Liberty,\nEric H. Smith
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They (PAS) can rule other states.... just that they have to win the election first... :)
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It is practically impossible to answer your question because you do not have enough information.  What article, source, or amendment?  Are you referring to some type of statute?  Are you referring to a Constitutional Amendment?  An article of a statute?  \n\nYou don't have enough information here.  You should go to the library and speak to the librararians.  They will be able to assist you.