Ardoin - Amendments
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edavidson8 on October 6, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1st Amendment | freedoms of religion, speech, press, assemlby, and petition |
| 2nd Amendment | right to bear arms |
| 3rd Amendment | restrictions on quartering of troops |
| 4th Amendment | protection against unlawful search and seizure |
| 5th Amendment | rights of the accused in criminal proceedings, due process |
| 6th Amendment | right to a speedy and fair trial |
| 7th Amendment | rights involved in a civil suit |
| 8th Amendment | punishment for crimes (cruel and unusual punishment) |
| 9th Amendment | powers reserved to the people (non-enumerated rights) |
| 10th Amendment | powers reserved to the states |
| 11th Amendment | suits against states by a resident or by another state must be heard in state courts, not federal courts: repealed part of Article III |
| 12th Amendment | election of president and vice president |
| 13th Amendment | ratified as a result of the Civil War; abolishes slavery |
| 14th Amendment | ratified after the Civil War; defines the rights of citizens; replaces part of Article I by requiring that African Americans be fully counted in determining apportionment; sets out punishment for leaders of the Confederacy; promises payment for federal debt as a result of the Civil War but not for debts of the Confederacy. This amendment's "equal protection under the law" provision figures prominently in later civil rights decisions by the Supreme Court |
| 15th Amendment | ratified after the Civil War; grants the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous servitude. Southern states defied the amendment until the 1960s when Congress passed various voting rights acts |
| 16th Amendment | grants federal government the ability to tax income |
| 17th Amendment | provides for direct election of senators; replace Article I, Section 3, paragraphs 2 and 3 |
| 18th Amendment | prohibits manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | grants women the right to vote |
| 20th Amendment | modified sections of Article I and the Twelfth Amendment relating to when the terms of office begin for members of Congress and the president and vice president; known as the "Lame Duck" Amendment because it shortened the time that a defeated legislator/official served between the election and the new term of office |
| 21st Amendment | repealed the Eighteenth (18th) Amendment |
| 22nd Amendment | limits presidential terms to two terms if elected on his/her own and to one term if serving out the term of a predecessor or more than two years |
| 23rd Amendment | provides three presidential electors for the District of Columbia |
| 24th Amendment | abolishes the poll tax for federal elections; part of the civil rights legislation of the 1960s |
| 25th Amendment | provides for presidential disability and succession if the president is unable to perform his or her duties |
| 26th Amendment | expands the right to vote to include 18-year-old citizens |
| 27th Amendment | limits the ability of Congress to raise its own salary |
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