Ammendments

First Amendment

Protects the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

Second Amendment

Protects the right to keep and bear arms.

Third Amendment

Prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime without the owner's consent.

Fourth Amendment

Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause.

Fifth Amendment

Guarantees the right to due process and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy.

Sixth Amendment

Guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial, impartial jury, and the right to counsel.

Seventh Amendment

Provides for the right to a jury trial in civil cases.

Eighth Amendment

Prohibits excessive bail and fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment.

Ninth Amendment

States that the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution does not deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.

Tenth Amendment

Affirms that powers not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.

Eleventh Amendment

Limits the ability of individuals to sue states in federal court.

Twelfth Amendment

Revises the presidential election process by requiring separate ballots for President and Vice President.

Thirteenth Amendment

Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude.

Fourteenth Amendment

Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees equal protection under the law.

Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sixteenth Amendment

Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.

Seventeenth Amendment

Establishes the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.

Eighteenth Amendment

Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors (later repealed by the 21st Amendment).

Nineteenth Amendment

Grants women the right to vote.

Twentieth Amendment

Changes the start and end dates for presidential and congressional terms.

Twenty-First Amendment

Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment, thus ending Prohibition.

Twenty-Second Amendment

Limits presidents to two terms in office.

Twenty-Third Amendment

Grants the District of Columbia electors in the Electoral College.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Prohibits the use of poll taxes in federal elections.

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Clarifies presidential succession and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President.

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Lowers the voting age to 18 years.

Twenty-Seventh Amendment

Delays the effectiveness of any law that changes the salary of Members of Congress until after the next election.