1. Locate & Label the following on your copy of the Constitution

2.  Section 4 States are in charge of elections This accounts for the confusion surrounding various state laws for voter registration, primaries, caucuses, etc.

3. Section 1 / Paragraph 2: Method for Picking Electors for the Electoral College Once again, in elections, states are in charge Section 1 / Paragraph 3: Old Electoral College Method Overturned by the 12 th Amendment

4.  Right to vote expanded to include former slaves

5.  Right to vote expanded to include women Overrode states that hadn’t expanded suffrage to women through state laws. Remember many states already had. Women in Washington had been voting for 10 years by the time this amendment was ratified! Go Team!

6.  Right to vote expanded to include residents of Washington DC DC given the same number of Electoral College votes as the smallest state, which means now DC is OVER represented in the EC

7.  Right to vote protected by the elimination of Poll Tax

8.  Lowered voting age to 18 Overrides various state laws that previously set the age at 21 Four states had already lowered their voting age by the time the amendment was ratified in 1971