Presidential Power & Elections
This amendment was ratified after the disputed election of 1800, when a tie forced the House of Representatives to decide the presidency.
What is the 12th Amendment?
The Equal Protection Clause of this amendment was used in Brown v. Board of Education to end school segregation.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amendment, proposed in 1789 but not ratified until 1992, says congressional pay raises can’t take effect until after the next election.
What is the 27th Amendment?
The exclusionary rule, which keeps illegally obtained evidence out of court, is based on this amendment.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment expanded democracy by granting women the right to vote.
What gave women suffrage?
Ratified in 1967, this amendment has a section that lets the vice president and Cabinet declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties” of office.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The rallying cry “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote” came during the Vietnam War, leading to this amendment’s ratification in 1971.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This 1913 amendment gave Congress the power to collect a direct income tax, overturning the Supreme Court’s decision in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co..
What is the 16th Amendment?
The Miranda warning (“You have the right to remain silent…”) is based on this amendment’s protection against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Adopted during the Vietnam War era, this amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What allowed 18-year-olds to vote?
Nicknamed the “Lame Duck Amendment,” this one shortened the wait between elections in November and inaugurations in March.
What is the 20th Amendment?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment came after decades of suffragist activism and granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Ratified during Prohibition, this amendment is the only one that repealed another amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia temporarily struck down death penalty laws under this amendment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
Part of the Bill of Rights, this amendment ensures punishments can’t be cruel or unusual.
What protects people from cruel and unusual punishment?
This amendment, passed after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four elections, limits presidents to serving two terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections, a Jim Crow practice designed to keep poor Black Americans from voting.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This amendment took the election of U.S. senators away from state legislatures and gave it to the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This amendment, part of the Bill of Rights, is often called the cornerstone of American democracy because it protects freedoms of speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly.
What is the 1st Amendment?
By overturning the 18th Amendment, this one ended Prohibition in the United States.
What repealed Prohibition?
the 22nd amendment
What prevents any president from holding office more than twice?
the 19th amendment
What gave women the right to vote?
This amendment gave Congress the power to levy an income tax, and later another amendment repealed a nationwide alcohol ban.
What are the 16th and 21st Amendments?
This amendment guarantees freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
what is the first amendment
This amendment, passed after FDR’s four elections, set a two-term limit for the presidency.
what is the 22nd amendment