Amendments

1st Article of Constitution

Legislative (Congress) - Makes Laws

2nd Article of Constitution

Executive (President) - Carries out Laws

3rd Article of Constitution

Judicial (Supreme Court) - Interprets Laws

4th Article of Constitution

Relation Among States

5th Article of Constitution

Amending Process

6th Article of Constitution

Supremacy

7th Article of Constitution

Ratification 9/17/1787

1st Bill of Rights

5 Freedoms: Speech, Petition, Religion, Assembly, Press

2nd Bill of Rights

Right to Bear Arms

3rd Bill of Rights

Against Quartering Troops

4th Bill of Rights

Against Unlawful Search and Seizure

5th Bill of Rights

Rights of Accused: Formal Charges, Presented, Against, Double Jeopardy, and Self Incrimination

6th Bill of Rights

Right to Speedy, Fair Trial and Lawyer

7th Bill of Rights

Right to Civil Suits (Suing but not criminal)

8th Bill of Rights

Against Unreasonable Bail or Punishment

9th Bill of Rights

Any othe rights reserved to the People

10th Bill of Rights

Powers Reserved to the States

11th Bill of Rights

States sued in own courts (1798)

12th Bill of Rights

President and vice president on separate ballots (1804)

13th Bill of Rights

Abolished slavery (1865)

14th Bill of Rights

Defines citizens. Right to due process for all. Equal Protection for all (1868)

15th Bill of Rights

No racial discrimination for voting (1870)

16th Bill of Rights

Income tax allowed (1913)

17th Bill of Rights

Direct vote for senators (1913)

18th Bill of Rights

Alcohol prohibited (1919)

19th Bill of Rights

Woman can vote (1920)

20th Bill of Rights

“Lame Duck Amendment” (1933). Changes date for presidential term and congressional sessions

21st Bill of Rights

Alcohol allowed (repeal of 18th) (1933)

22nd Bill of Rights

President is limited to two terms (1951)

23rd Bill of Rights

Citizens of Washington, D.C. can vote for president (1961)

24th Bill of Rights

No poll tax (1964)

25th Bill of Rights

Presidential Succession and Disability (1967)

26th Bill of Rights

18 year-olds may vote (1971)

27th Bill of Rights

Congressional Pay increase takes place in the next term (1992)

1st President

George Washington

2nd President

John Adams

3rd President

Thomas Jefferson

4th President

James Madison

5th President

James Monroe

6th President

John Quincy Adams

7th President

Andrew Jackson

16th President

Abraham Lincoln

17th President

Andrew Johnson

18th President

Ulysses S. Grant

19th President

Rutherford B. Hayes

20th President

James A. Garfield

21st President

Chester A. Arthur

22nd President

Grover Cleveland

23rd President

Benjamin Harrison

24th President

Grover Cleveland

25th President

William McKinley

26th President

Theodore Roosevelt

27th President

William Howard Taft

28th President

Woodrow Wilson

29th President

Warren G. Harding

30th President

Calvin Coolidge

31st President

Herbert Hoover

32nd President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

33rd President

Harry S. Truman

34th President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

35th President

John F. Kennedy

36th President

Lyndon B. Johnson

37th President

Richard Nixon

38th President

Gerald Ford

39th President

Jimmy Carter

40th President

Ronald Reagan

41st President

George H. W. Bush

42nd President

Bill Clinton

43rd President

George W. Bush

44th President

Barack Obama

45th President

Donald Trump

46th President

Joe Biden

47th President

Donald Trump