Constitutional Amendments

1st Amendment

Freedom of press, religion, assembly, petition, speech

2nd Amendment

Right to bear arms

3rd Amendment

No quartering soldiers in peacetime

4th Amendment

Unreasonable search and seizure, warrant

5th Amendment

Self incrimination, double jeopardy, due process, grand jury for federal and infamous crimes, eminent domain

6th Amendment

Fair and speedy trial, right to know accuser, accusation, witness, counsel

7th Amendment

Right to jury trial for civil case over $20 can not reopen findings of fact by jury

8th Amendment

Against cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail

9th Amendment

Rights to the people

10th Amendment

Powers to the state

11th Amendment

States protected from suits of nonresidents of the state

12th Amendment

2 ballots for president and vice president

13th Amendment

No slavery except criminal

14th Amendment

Citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, equal protection, congressional representation & insurrection & public debt

15th Amendment

suffrage not discriminate by race

16th Amendment

income tax

17th Amendment

direct election of senators

18th Amendment

prohibition

19th Amendment

women’s’ suffrage

20th Amendment

dates for term starts for Congress and President

21st Amendment

no more prohibition

22nd Amendment

2 terms president, >2yrs counts as 1

23rd Amendment

voting in DC

24th Amendment

no poll tax

25th Amendment

president successor, temporary if disability

26th Amendment

right to vote to 18yo

27th Amendment

no salary change for reps till next term