RUSH AMENDMENTS

First Amendment

Protects the freedoms of speech, religion, the press, peaceful 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 involuntary quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime without the owner's consent.

Fourth Amendment

Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, requiring search warrants supported by probable cause.

Fifth Amendment

Guarantees rights to due process, protection against self-incrimination, protection against double jeopardy, and just compensation for eminent domain.

Sixth Amendment

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

Seventh Amendment

Guarantees 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

Establishes 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 or to the people.

Eleventh Amendment

Restricts federal courts from hearing lawsuits against a state brought by citizens of another state or foreign country.

Twelfth Amendment

Revises presidential election procedures by requiring members of the Electoral College to cast separate ballots 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 under the laws.

Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sixteenth Amendment

Empowers Congress to levy and collect an income tax without apportioning it among the states.

Seventeenth Amendment

Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote rather than by state legislatures.

Eighteenth Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors within the United States.

Nineteenth Amendment

Prohibits denying United States citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex, securing women's suffrage.

Twentieth Amendment

Sets the commencement date for presidential terms to January 20 and congressional terms to January 3, reducing the lame-duck period.

Twenty-First Amendment

Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment, ending national Prohibition while allowing state-level regulation of alcohol.

Twenty-Second Amendment

Limits an individual to serving a maximum of two terms, or up to ten years, as President of the United States.

Twenty-Third Amendment

Grants electoral votes to the District of Columbia in the Electoral College, allowing its residents to vote in presidential elections.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Prohibits the revocation of voting rights in federal elections due to non-payment of a poll tax or other tax.

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Details procedures for addressing presidential disability, succession, and filling vacancies in the office of the Vice President.

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Lowers the national legal voting age from 21 to 18 for all federal, state, and local elections.

Twenty-Seventh Amendment

Delays the effect of any law changing the compensation of members of Congress until after the next election of Representatives.