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First Amendment

Protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.

Second Amendment

Protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Third Amendment

Prohibits the forcible quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime.

Fourth Amendment

Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires warrants supported by probable cause.

Fifth Amendment

Guarantees the rights to indictment by grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, due process of law, and just compensation for private property taken for public use.

Sixth Amendment

Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, the assistance of legal counsel, and the confrontation of opposing witnesses in criminal prosecutions.

Seventh Amendment

Preserves the right to a jury trial in federal civil lawsuits where the value in controversy exceeds twenty dollars.

Eighth Amendment

Prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.

Ninth Amendment

Clarifies that the enumeration of specific rights in the Constitution does not deny or disparage other unenumerated rights retained by the people.

Tenth Amendment

Reserves powers not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states to the states respectively, or to the people.

Eleventh Amendment

Protects states against lawsuits in federal court filed by citizens of another state or foreign country (state sovereign immunity).

Twelfth Amendment

Revises presidential election procedures by requiring electors in the Electoral College to cast distinct votes for President and Vice President.

Thirteenth Amendment

Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime whereof the party has been duly convicted.

Fourteenth Amendment

Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees due process and equal protection of the laws against state infringement.

Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sixteenth Amendment

Grants Congress the authority to levy and collect an income tax without apportioning it among the states based on population.

Seventeenth Amendment

Establishes the direct popular election of United States Senators by the citizens of each state.

Eighteenth Amendment

Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors within the United States (initiating Prohibition).

Nineteenth Amendment

Guarantees women the right to vote by prohibiting the denial of voting rights on account of sex.

Twentieth Amendment

Sets January 20 as the beginning of presidential terms and January 3 for congressional terms, reducing the 'lame duck' period.

Twenty-First Amendment

Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment, ending nationwide Prohibition while granting states control over alcohol regulation.

Twenty-Second Amendment

Limits an elected President to two terms in office, or a maximum of ten years if assuming the presidency via succession.

Twenty-Third Amendment

Grants residents of Washington, D.C. electors in the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Prohibits the revocation of voting rights in federal elections due to the failure to pay a poll tax or any other tax.

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Defines the procedures for presidential succession, vice-presidential vacancies, and cases of presidential disability.

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Lowers the voting age to eighteen years of age or older across federal, state, and local elections.

Twenty-Seventh Amendment

Requires that any law changing the compensation of members of Congress take effect only after an intervening election of Representatives.