Constitutional Amendments

1st Amendment

Prohibits Congress from making laws that infringe upon the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, protecting individual expression.

2nd Amendment

Protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms, stating that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.

3rd Amendment

Prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent during peacetime.

4th Amendment

Protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant, ensuring the right to privacy.

5th Amendment

Prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy, ensuring the right to due process and protects against uncompensated seizure of property.

6th Amendment

Ensures the right to a fair and speedy public trial by an impartial jury, along with the right to counsel.

7th Amendment

Guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases involving more than twenty dollars.

8th Amendment

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

9th Amendment

Affirms that the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution does not deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.

10th Amendment

Affirms that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

11th Amendment

Renders the states immune from lawsuits from out-of-state citizens and foreign individuals.

12th Amendment

Establishes the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, requiring electors to cast separate ballots for each office.

13th Amendment

Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

14th Amendment

Citizenship Clause, privileges and immunities clause, due-process clause, equal protection clause, selective incorporation

15th Amendment

No voting discrimination based on race

16th Amendment

Congress Can tax income from any source

17th Amendment

Direct election of senator, governors have power to fill vacancies

18th Amendment

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Womens suffrage

20th Amendment

Changes the start dates for the term of the president, vice president, and congress

21st Amendment

Prohibition repealed, allows states to regulate alcoholic beverages in their borders

22nd Amendment

No president shall be elected to the office of the president more than 2 times (2 term limit)

23rd Amendment

Gives Washington D.C. three electoral votes

24th Amendment

Abolish poll taxes for federal elections

25th Amendment

Established the precess for presidential succession and disability

26th Amendment

Lowering voting age to 18

27th Amendment

Congress can’t raise its pay during current term