27 Amendments
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36 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1-10th | The Bill of Rights |
| 11th | No state can be sued from a citizen from another state or foreign nation |
| 12th | Makes changes in electoral college procedures, everyone has to specify what they're running for |
| 13th | Abolishes slavery |
| 14th | Citizenship, due process, equal protection |
| 15th | No denial of vote because of race, color, or previous enslavement |
| 16th | Power of congress to tax incomes |
| 17th | The direct election of senators, popular election |
| 18th | Prohibition, cannot manufacture, sell, or consume alcohol |
| 19th | Gives voting to women |
| 20th | Change of dates for start of presidential and congressional term, from March 4 to January 20 |
| 21st | Repealed prohibition |
| 22nd | Limited the number of terms to the president |
| 23rd | Allow the District of Columbia to have a vote in presidential elections |
| 24th | Bans the voting tax (poll tax), they had made the black pay a tax to vote, in order to stop the mfrom voting |
| 25th | Tells us what to do about presidential succession, vice presidential vacancy, and disability |
| 26th | Voting age of 18 |
| 27th | Forbids members of Congress from giving themselves a pay raise |
| Preamble | States the purpose of the Constitution |
| Article 1 | Legislative Branch |
| Article 2 | Executive Branch |
| Article 3 | Judicial Branch |
| Article 4 | Relations among the States |
| Article 5 | Amending the Consitution |
| Article 6 | National debts, supremacy of national law, and oaths of office |
| Article 7 | Ratifying the Constitution |
| Amendment 1 | freedom of speech, press, and religion, right to petition and assembly |
| Amendment 2 | right to bear arms |
| Amendment 3 | no soldier shall be quartered in any house without consent of the owner |
| Amendment 4 | No unreasonable seizures and searches |
| Amendment 5 | The right not to speak |
| Amendment 6 | The right to a public trial |
| Amendment 7 | peservation of right of trial by jury |
| Amendment 8 | Excessive bail shall not required, nor excessive fines, nor cruel and unusual punishment |
| Amendment 9 | The constitution shall not deny other peoples rights |
| Amendment 10 | The powers not in the constitution are reserved to the states or the people |
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