All 27 Amendment Review

Does not include when they were ratified nor what the actual amendments state. These are just summarizations.

1st Amendment

The government will not interfere with the ability of the people, the press, or religious groups to express their views or to protest in favor of them

2nd Amendment

About the right to bear arms. In the modern world, the continued right to own firearms and protect property according to the law.

3rd Amendment

States that citizens do not have to house soldiers in wartime or peacetime if they do not consent to do so

4th Amendment

the right of the people of the US to feel secure in their homes and possessions without fear of “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

5th Amendment

“double jeopardy law” Those tried and acquitted for a crime cannot be tried again for that same crime. The Accused cannot be asked to be a witness against themselves.

6th Amendment

The right of all citizens of the US to a fair and speedy trial. This also means an impartial jury and the right to a defense counsel land witnesses in their favor.

7th Amendment

Gives the right for any claimant to take a matter to court and trial by jury when the value in question exceeds $20

8th Amendment

A ban on extreme punishments for crimes, focusing on those that are “cruel and unusual” and on excessive fines or bail.

9th Amendment

Clarifies that US citizens have far more rights than those currently listed and that their absence doesn’t diminish their importance.

10th Amendment

Attempts to separate federal and state law, where the federal gov. only has the powers assigned to it via the US Constitution. The states have power over everything else

11th Amendment

The notion that the right for citizens to sue a state only applies to residents in that state. In other words, Texans can’t sue the State of New Mexico

12th Amendment

A complex amendment that lays out all the laws for how Presidents and Vice Presidents progress through the nomination and election process.. It goes into who is allowed to vote and qualified electors and delegates

13th Amendment

The abolition of slavery. The promise that slavery, or “involuntary servitude,” would exist no long within the US. The exception here is on the conviction of a crime

14th Amendment

The assertion that all those born or naturalized within the US are citizens of the US. Furthermore, the promise that no state will enforce any law that will damage these privileges in any way. Also known as the Equal Protection Clause.

15th Amendment

Any citizen of the US has the right to vote, regardless of their race and color of their skin. This constitutional amendment also mentions those with a “previous condition of servitude,” which grants the right to former slaves.

16th Amendment

A law that allowed Congress to start collecting income tax, with the promise that this would not be based on the states’s population.

17th Amendment

Lays out the terms for electing senators. This games power to the people of the US to choose their representatives and laid out the terms of office

18th Amendment

Also know as the Prohibition Law. This prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of ‘intoxicating liquors.’ This essentially meant a ban on alcohol and led to the Prohibition Era of bootleg alcohol sales and consumption. Ratified Jan 16, 1919 but subsequently repealed by the 21st Amendment

19th Amendment

About the right for any citizen of the US to vote, regardless of their biological sex. Essentially, this was the moment joined male citizens and were granted the right to vote in the US.

20th Amendment

The decision that all presidential terms, and those of vice presidents, will end at noon on Jan 20th. In addition to this, it was decided that the date of the start of the term in the Senate would move to January 3rd

21st Amendment

the motion to repeal the 18th Amendment, the Prohibition Law, and allow for the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. It was ratified due to the inability to enforce the law. Instead, individual states gained the right to police alcohol-related laws themselves

22nd Amendment

the notion that no president should be eligible for election into office for more than two terms. Furthermore, anyone promoted to president for two years or more of a term cannot be elected for more than one additional term.

23rd Amendment

ensures that Washington, D.C. had electors in the Electoral College, but only as many as the state with the lowest number. This would ensure that voters there had better representation in future elections.

24th Amendment

The right of any citizen of the US to vote for candidates in any election for Presidential, Senate, or Congress representatives

25th Amendment

The Vice President will take office and take over the role of president if the president is removed from office, resigns, or dies. This was proposed in 1965 after Lyndon Johnson took over the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy

26th Amendment

The voting rights of all American citizens over 18. Before this, the voting age had been 21. There is also mention of being able to do so without fear of having their vote denied because of their age

27th Amendment

Any changes to the salary of those in Congress should not take effect until the next election of representatives. Unsurprisingly, given the nature of this bill, this took a long time to reach ratification