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- First (1)
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Four Freedoms
religion, speech, press, assembly - Second (2)
- Right to own guns
- Third (3)
- No quartering of soliders
- Fourth (4th)
- No search and seizure
- Fifth (5th)
- Rights of the accused
- Sixth (6th)
- Speedy trial by jury
- Eighth (8th)
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No excessive bail
No cruel and unusual punishment - Tenth (10th)
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Powers not give to the U.S. government, or
prohibited to the states, are given to
the states (and its people) - twelfth (12th)
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Members of the electoral college vote
for a person for president and one for
president.
If either, or both, of the candidates DO NOT get a majority, the House of Representatives votes. - thirteenth (13)
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abolition of slavery
(doing away with) slavery - Fourteenth (14)
- Citizen Rights in State
- Fifteenth (15th)
- voting rights for everyone
- Sixteenth (16th)
- Congress power to ask for income taxes
- Seventeenth (17th)
- People elect senators
- Eighteenth (18th)
- PROHIBITION - can't sell liquor
- Nineteenth- (19th)
- Women could vote
- Twentieth (20th)
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LAME DUCK AMENDMENT
Inauguration = January 20 - Twenty-first (21st)
- Repeals 18th
- Twenty-Second (22nd)
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Limits presidents term of office
2 terms OR ten years - Twenty-third (23rd)
- Washington D.C. can vote in Presidential election
- Twenty-Fourth (24th)
- No poll tax
- Twenty-fifth (25th)
- Presidental succession
- Twenty-sixth (26th)
- 18 year olds may vote
- Twenty-seventh (27th)
- Congressional pay raises.
- Seventh (7th)
- When a citizen is sued for $20.00 or more, he has a right to a jury trial.
- Eleventh (11th)
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A citizen of one state CANNOT sue
a citizen of another state in Federal
court.