RECONSTRUCTION & FEDERAL POWER
Limits lawsuits against states by citizens of another state or country.
What is the 11th Amendment?
Authorized Congress to collect a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Moved presidential inaugurations to January and shortened lame-duck periods.
What is the 20th Amendment?
Gave Washington, D.C. electoral votes in presidential elections.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
Power the President uses to block legislation.
Congressional process used to accuse a federal official of wrongdoing.
Changed the presidential election process after the election of 1800.
What is the 12th Amendment?
Established the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Banned poll taxes in federal elections.
24th
Congressional process used to accuse a federal official of wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
Abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol nationwide.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Limited presidents to two elected terms.
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Guaranteed voting rights regardless of age for those 18 and older.
26th
Power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
Defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
The 14th
Granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Fourth Amendment
Addressed presidential succession and disability.
What is the 25th Amendment?
Senate power over presidential appointments and treaties.
What is confirmation?
Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
9th
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
7th
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
10th
Principle that prevents any branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?