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Category II
Category III
Category IV
Category V
100
No excessive bail & fines or cruel & unusual punishment
What is the 8th amendment?
100
Allows federal income tax
What is 16th amendment?
100
Women's suffrage
What is the 19th amendment?
100
Prohibition of the restriction of voting rights due to the non-payment of poll taxes
What is 24th amendment
100
Right to trial by jury in civil cases
What is 7th amendment?
200
Abolition of slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
What is 13th amendment?
200
Revision of presidential election procedures (vote for President & Vice-President together)
What is 12th amendment?
200
Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment; state and local prohibition no longer required by law.
What is 21st amendment?
200
Direct election to the United States Senate
What is the 17th amendment?
200
Voting age nationally established as age 18
What is the 26th amendment?
300
Representation of Washington, D.C. in the Electoral College
What is 23rd amendment?
300
Guards against unreasonable Searches and seizures; warrants
What is the 4th amendment?
300
The right to keep and bear arms
What is 2nd amendment?
300
Term Commencement for congress (January 3) and president (January 20.) (This amendment is also known as the "lame duck amendment".)
What is the 20th amendment?
300
Prohibition of alcohol (Repealed by 21st amendment)
What is the 18th amendment?
400
Limits the power of the Federal government
What is 10th amendment?
400
Suffrage no longer restricted by race (voting rights for former slaves)
What is the 15th amendment?
400
Citizenship, state due process, applies Bill of Rights to the states, revision to apportionment of Representatives, Denies public office to anyone who has rebelled against the United States
What is the 14th amendment?
400
Indictments; Due process; Self-incrimination; Double jeopardy, and rules for Eminent Domain.
What is 5th amendment?
400
Limits the president to two terms
What is 22nd amendment?
500
Freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, to petition, and to assemble
What is the 1st amendment?
500
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
What is 9th amendment?
500
Immunity of states from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders. Lays the foundation for sovereign immunity.
What is 11th amendment?
500
No quartering of soldiers in private houses during times of peace or war
What is 3rd amendment?
500
Right to a fair and speedy public trial, Notice of accusations, Confronting one's accuser, Subpoenas, Right to counsel
What is the 6th amendment?