Amendments

1st Amendment

Free speech, free religion, right to press, opinion, etc

2nd Amendment

Right to bear arms

3rd Amendment

No quartering soldiers

4th Amendment

Reasonable searches and seizures

5th Amendment

Due Process, right to an attorney, right to stay silent, Double Jeopardy

6th Amendment

Right to a speedy and public trial

7th Amendment

Right to a civil trial

8th Amendment

Bail and Fines

No cruel and unusual punishment

9th Amendment

Enumerated Rights

10th Amendment

Powers not delegated to the states by the Constitution, reserved to the states or people

11th Amendment

Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign country from suing another state

12th Amendment

Added the separation of the president and vice president onto two different ballots

13th Amendment

Freed all slaves without compensation to the slaveowners. Forbade slavery in US

14th Amendment

Declared that all people born or naturalized in the Us were entitled to equal rights regardless of race

15th Amendment

Citizens cannot be denied the right to cite bc of skin color, race, etc

16th Amendment

federal income tax

17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

18th Amendment

Prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

20th Amendment

Changed date president takes office from March 4 to January 20. Changed start of Congress to January 3. End of Lame Duck Congress

21st Amendment

repeal of prohibition-18th amendment

22nd Amendment

limits the number of terms a president may be elected to serve (2)

23rd Amendment

Washington, d.c. receives 3 electoral votes and the residents are allowed to vote in the presidential election

24th Amendment

outlawed the poll tax

25th Amendment

Presidential succession, vice presidential vacancy, and presidential disability (if the president dies the vice president takes over as president and then the vice president elects someone from congress to take the place of vice president)

26th Amendment

Lowered the voting age to 18

27th Amendment

Regulated pay raises for members of Congress