of the Constitution empower Congress to protect the right to vote in Federal elections. (27) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was always understood to be privately enforceable, and to contain a private right of action by which all voters of the United States could guarantee the rights guaranteed therein. Recently, in light of the continued development of the law concerning privately enforceable statutes, academic discussion and jurisprudential dicta have incorrectly questioned the Voting Rights Act of 1965’s private right of action. This Act and the amendments made by this Act recognize the hundreds of cases brought by private plaintiffs to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and re-affirms that such a private right of action has always existed for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 4. Enforcement of the 26th Amendment Title III of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 52 U.S.C. 10701 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 303. Private right of action