US Amendments
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- one
- guarantees freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and press, and the right of people to petition the government
- two
- protects the rights of states to maintain a militia and of citizens to bear arms
- three
- restricts quartering of troops in private homes
- four
- protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures"
- five
- assures the right to not be deprived of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," including protections against double jeopardy, self-incrimination, and government seizure of property without just compensation
- six
- guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury
- seven
- assures the right to a jury trial in cases involving the common law (the law established by previous court decisions)
- eight
- protects against excessive bail, or cruel and unusual punishment
- nine
- provides that people's rights are not restricted those specified in Amendments 1-8
- ten
- restates the Constitutions principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people
- eleven
- removed cases in which a state was sued without its consent from the jurisdiction of the federal courts
- twelve
- required presidential electors to vote separately for president and vice president
- thirteen
- abolished slavery and authorized Congress to pass legislation implementing its abolition
- fourteen
- granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US; banned states from denying any person life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and banned states from denying any person equal protection under the laws
- fifteen
- extended voting rights to AA by outlawing denial of the right to ote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- sixteen
- empowered Congress to levy an income tax
- seventeen
- provided for the election of US senators by direct popular vote instead of by the state legistlature
- eighteen
- authorized Congress to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transportatioin of liquor
- nineteen
- women's suffrage
- twenty
- shortened the time between a presidential election and inauguration by designating January 20 as Inaugration Day; set January 3 as the date for the opening of the new Congress
- twenty-one
- repealed the 18th amendment and empowered Congress to regulate the liquor industry
- twenty-two
- limited presidents to two full terms in office
- twenty-three
- granted voters in DC the right to vote for president and vice president
- twenty-four
- forbade requiring the payment of a poll tax to vote in a federal election
- twenty-five
- provided for succession to the office of president in the event of death or incapacity and for filling vacancies in the office of the vice president
- twenty-six
- extended the right to vote to 18-year olds
- twenty-seven
- Banned Congress from increasing its members' salaries until after the next election