The Bill of Rights
This amendment guarantees your right to a jury trial in most civil cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
This amendment is the only one to ever be repealed.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This amendment limits the President to serving only two terms.
What is the Twenty-second Amendment?
This amendment ensures that no one can be denied the right to vote based on race or previous servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The amendment that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote.
What is the Twenty-sixth Amendment?
The right to keep and bear arms is protected by this amendment.
What is the Second Amendment?
This amendment grants Congress the power to lay and collect income taxes.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
This amendment deals with Presidential disability and succession, establishing procedures for filling the VP vacancy.
What is the Twenty-fifth Amendment?
This amendment defines citizenship and guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the Twenty-fourth Amendment?
This amendment protects citizens from excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This amendment prevents members of Congress from raising their own pay until the start of the next term.
What is the Twenty-seventh Amendment?
This "lame duck" amendment shortened the period between the November election and the date the President takes office to January 20th.
What is the Twentieth Amendment?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This amendment secured the right to vote for women.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to protect citizens from this.
What is excessive power (or tyranny) of the federal government?
The 18th Amendment, which started Prohibition, banned this.
What is the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol?
This amendment was the result of a tie in the Electoral College in 1800, creating separate ballots for President and Vice President.
What is the Twelfth Amendment?
The Equal Protection Clause in this amendment has been the basis for many civil rights rulings.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The right for citizens of the District of Columbia to vote for President is granted by this amendment.
What is the Twenty-third Amendment?
This amendment states that people have rights beyond those specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This amendment prohibits citizens of one state from suing another state in a federal court.
What is the Eleventh Amendment?
This article of the Constitution, not an amendment, originally established the Electoral College system.
What is Article II?
The 13th Amendment was ratified this year.
What is 1865?
This amendment changed the method of electing U.S. Senators from selection by state legislatures to popular election.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?