<span>To attract international trade by eliminating trade barriers
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<span>The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime <span>trade. The panama has become an instant conduit of business from the Latin America region.</span></span>
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits 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.
On this date in 1962, the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86. At the time, five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters: Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
When people are treated poorly based on their race or skin color
