🦅 📜 All Constitutional Amendments—AP Gov

Learn the provisions of all 27 Constitutional Amendments.

This Amendment protects citizens’ freedoms of the press, speech, expression, petition, peaceful assembly, and religion.

First Amendment

This amendment protects the right to bear arms.

Second Amendment

This Amendment prevents the quartering of soldiers in citizens’ homes.

Third Amendment

This Amendment prevents unreasonable searches and seizures and requires probable cause for warrants.

Fourth Amendment

This Amendment protects citizens’ due process rights and the right to a federal trial by a grand jury, and protects citizens against uncompensated government seizure of property, double jeopardy, and self-incrimination (right to remain silent).

Fifth Amendment

This Amendment protects the right to a speedy and public trial by jury, the right to habeas corpus, and the right to counsel.

Sixth Amendment

This Amendment protects the right to jury trial established in a previous amendment and prohibits retrials of facts found by juries.

Seventh Amendment

This Amendment protects people from cruel and unusual punishment, and from being compelled to pay excessive bail / fines.

Eighth Amendment

This Amendment protects other rights that are not specifically listed in the Constitution, preventing the government from limiting citizens’ other rights simply because they are not in the Constitution.

Ninth Amendment

This Amendment reserves powers not specifically given to the United States in the Constitution to the American states and the American people.

Tenth Amendment

What Reconstruction amendment abolished slavery?

Thirteenth Amendment

What Reconstruction amendment contains provisions for birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause (which is the basis for selective incorporation), another due process clause, and the Insurrection Clause?

Fourteenth Amendment

What Reconstruction amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race or former enslavement?

Fifteenth Amendment

What Progressive Era amendment established a federal income tax?

Sixteenth Amendment

What Progressive Era amendment provided for the direct election of Senators, as opposed to the original method of state legislatures electing senators?

Seventeenth Amendment

What Progressive Era amendment began the Prohibition period by outlawing alcohol?

Eighteenth Amendment

What Progressive Era amendment granted women the right to vote?

Nineteenth Amendment

This amendment establishes SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY, meaning states cannot be sued by citizens of other states or citizens of foreign nations without their consent.

Eleventh Amendment

This amendment required the Electoral College to cast separate, clearly labeled ballots for President and Vice President to prevent confusion and streamline the electoral process. It also established provisions for electing these officials if no candidate had a clear majority, with the Senate electing the Vice President and the House electing the President.

Twelfth Amendment

This amendment specified that the transition between Presidents shall take place on January 20th after every election year, and that the transition between members of Congress’ terms shall take place every January 3rd. It also establishes a succession procedure in the case of the President-elect’s death before they take office.

Twentieth Amendment

This amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, legalized alcohol, and ended Prohibition.

Twenty-First Amendment

This amendment established Presidential term limits. Under this amendment, Presidents (or officials who have acted as President for more than two years) may not serve for longer than two terms.

Twenty-Second Amendment

This amendment allowed Washington, D.C. to appoint electors for President and Vice President.

Twenty-Third Amendment

This amendment banned poll taxes and protected the right to vote regardless of failing to pay taxes.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

This amendment provides for the ability of a majority of the Cabinet and the Vice President to present a written declaration to Congress to remove the President from office when they are “unable to discharge” their “powers and duties.” It also establishes succession procedures for Vice President, who must be confirmed by a majority vote in both houses of Congress.

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

This Amendment protected the voting rights of all Americans at and above 18 years of age.

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

This Amendment prevents Congress from voting to increase their own salaries, stipulating that a law to increase Congressional pay cannot take effect until after an intervening Congressional election.

Twenty-Seventh Amendment