Original sentence: Amendment nineteen prohibits denial or abridgement, on account of sex, of the right to vote.Amendment seventeen transfers the elective power for senators to the people of their respective states (from the state legislatures).Amendment sixteen gives Congress the power to tax incomes directly.Amendment twenty-four prohibits denial or abridgement, by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax, of the right to vote in elections for federal office.Amendment twenty-six prohibits denial or abridgement, on account of age, of the right of those eighteen years of age or older to vote.Amendment twenty-three allows for the participation of the District of Columbia in the election of President and Vice President.Beginning with the fourteenth (ratified under duress in 1868), many amendments were added which brought the U.Hence, for example, Senators were to be elected to 6-year terms by their respective state legislatures, and President and Vice President were to be chosen via.No form of the word democracy is found in the Constitution.Some framers of the document argued (perhaps most notably in the Federalist Papers, especially 10 and 51) that democracy in its pure form is a danger to liberty, and that the natural impulses of factions and majority should be dampened via a republican framework.The Constitution guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...".The three branches of the Federal Government were also thought to contribute a dampening effect, as they would naturally oppose and offset one another to a degree.This isolated these offices somewhat from transient public opinion.Though not specified in the Constitution, voting in the U.closer to a direct democracy: Amendment fifteen prohibits denial or abridgement, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, of the right to vote.was mostly limited to white, male landowners