AP Gov Amendment Review

1. Religion (freedom of/gov cannot establish church)

2. Assembly (right to gather/protest)

3. Petition (complain to gov/protest)

4. Press (newspapers/blogs/etc)

5. Speech

First Amendment

Right to keep and bear arms

Second Amendment

No soldiers can be placed at your house

Third Amendment

No unwarranted search and seizure (taking stuff)

Fourth Amendment

1. Self-incrimination (can't make me)

2. Indictment by Grand Jury (my peers decide if a case should go forward)

3. Due process (arrest me and try me the correct way)

4. Eminent domain (if gov takes land, they must pay you)

5. Double jeopardy (can't be tried for same crime twice)

Fifth Amendment

Criminal cases

1.speedy trial

2.right to a lawyer

3.right to jury

Sixth Amendment

Civil cases

1.jury

2. speedy trial

3. etc

Seventh Amendment

1.No cruel and unusual punishment

2.No high bail

Eighth Amendment

People have more rights than what is listed here

Ninth Amendment

States have powers reserved for them. Anything not given to Fed is reserved for states.

Tenth Amendment

Procedures for electing presidents and vice presidents

Twelfth Amendment

Abolished slavery

Thirtheenth Amendment

1. equal protection (all people must be treated equally regardless of skin color)

2. due process

3. citizenship for ppl born here

4. allowed the Bill of Rights to be applied to the state govs

Fourteenth Amendment

Voting rights for all men regardless of race (black suffrage)

Fifteenth Amendment

Congress has power to pass income tax (federal)

Sixteenth Amendment

Senators will now be elected by direct election (no more states legislatures choosing senators)

Seventeenth Amendment

Banned alcohol

Eighteenth Amendment

Women can vote

Nineteenth Amendment

Presidency now starts on January 20; Congress starts Jan 3

Twentieth Amendment

repealed prohibition (18th)

Twenty-First Amendment

Two term limit on pres (10 year max)

Twenty-second Amendment

Washington DC gets the right to vote for president (3 electoral votes)

Twenty-third Amendment

Abolish poll tax

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Presidential vacancy- Reagan is shot, Bush is temp president; Dealt with succession (who becomes pres next)

Twenty-fifth Amendment

Right to vote at 18 years old

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Congress can't give themselves a raise until after the term ends. (Congress controls their own salary)

Twenty-seventh Amendment