Bill of Rights
This amendment guarantees a lawyer even if a person cannot afford one.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This Amendment gave the right to vote to all women, regardless of race.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This amendment allowed all male citizens the right to vote, so long as they were over the age of 21.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Amendment reduces the "_____ ____" period, or the time between an election and inauguration day.
What is lame duck?
This Amendment completely and permanently banned slavery in all states.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This amendment sent the nation into Prohibition for an indefinite amount of time.
What is the 18th Amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE
This Amendment guarantees the right to an attorney in most federal civil cases.
What is the 7th Amendment?
First loser? Before the 12th Amendment, the 2nd place finisher in the presidential election became this:
What is the Vice President?
It establishes citizenship for all former slaves and all persons born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amendment, rarely considered by the Supreme Court, creates a right that "shall not be infringed."
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The direct election of Senators was allowed by this Amendment.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This event was the driving force behind the 26th Amendment.
What was the Vietnam War?
This Amendment was inspired after the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ran and won 4 times.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The 5th Amendment, along with establishing a speedy. public trial by jury, established this essential governing concept (as does the 14th Amendment)!
What is due process?
It establishes the concept of "reserved powers."
What is the 10th Amendment?
The 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to do this.
What is collect an income tax?
The 24th Amendment eliminated this Jim Crow-era voting restriction.
What is a poll tax?
This Amendment helped inspire the TV show "Designated Survivor," which highlights a plan for succession in case the President becomes unable to serve.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The 8th Amendment protects a person from "_____ ___ _______" punishment.
What is cruel and unusual?
These five components make up the First Amendment.
What are religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
This is the only Amendment in history that had the purpose of repealing another Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Passed in 1961, the 23rd Amendment allowed residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections. Which president was the first they could have voted for?
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
This Amendment, proposed in 1791 and ratified in 1992, does not allow Congress to raise its own pay until a new election has taken place.
What is the 27th Amendment?
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It establishes that any rights not listed in the Constitution are retained by the PEOPLE.
What is the 9th Amendment?