Amendments 1-10 (1)
If the people don't like how the government is handling an issue or their job, you can exercise these rights.
First Amendment rights
The Second Amendment allows citizens to do these two things.
Bear Arms and form a militia.
This amendment created income taxes.
Sixteenth Amendment
This amendment repealed prohibition.
Twenty-first Amendment
This Amendment stopped poll taxes when voting took place.
Twenty-fourth Amendment
This amendment stopped the housing of soldiers during war.
Third amendment
If convicted of a crime and set free, this right prevents you from being convicted again.
Double Jeopardy
This amendment was created to guarantee equality regardless of race.
Fourteenth Amendment
This Amendment limited presidents to two terms in office.
Twenty-second Amendment?
This amendment gave Washington D.C electors to vote in the presidential election.
Twenty-third Amendment
This amendment requires a warrant to search or seize unless there is probable cause.
Fourth Amendment
This amendment was put in place to make sure that the federal government did not have all the power, and that the states could still retain some.
Tenth Amendment
This amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the States.
Thirteenth Amendment
This amendment sets the dates of presidential and congressional terms, and inauguration day. President: January 20th; Congress: January 3rd.
Twentieth Amendment
This Amendment regulates the salaries of members of Congress.
Twenty-seventh Amendment
In civil cases exceeding twenty dollars, this amendment allowed juries for them.
Seventh Amendment
Speedy trial, an impartial jury, and a list of the charges read to the convict are just some of the things that this amendment covers.
Sixth Amendment
This bill stopped race from defining who got to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
This Amendment changed the voting age to 18.
Twenty-sixth Amendment
In the late 1920's this amendment prohibited alcohol.
Eighteenth Amendment
Cruel and Unusual Punishment and excessive bail are both included in this amendment.
Eighth Amendment
Just because it is not literally written down, doesn't mean citizens' rights are not protected. (we can't cover every single scenario). What Amendment covers this concept for the people?
Ninth Amendment
This Amendment says that voting rights cannot be restricted based on gender.
Nineteenth Amendment
Establishes election of senators by the people.
Seventeenth Amendment
This amendment says that you can't sue a state if you do not live there.
Eleventh Amendment
In the event of an arrest, the concepts in this Amendment are about knowing your words can put you in further danger/can get you into trouble.
5th Amendment
What Amendment says that private property should not be taken for public use without just compensation being given for it?
5th Amendment
Indicates that the Secretary of State is 4th in the line of succession, should the President, Vice President, and the Speaker of the House be unable to execute the duties of the Presidency.
25th Amendment
What clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees that states cannot abridge the "privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States?
Hint: The Supreme Court's decision in the Slaughter-House Cases held that the clause only protects rights connected to national citizenship, such as the right to access federal government property or the right to petition the federal government. It does not protect other fundamental rights, which are now often enforced through the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
The Privileges and Immunities Clause
This Amendment established the rules for the electoral college.
12th Amendment