FCLE - Amendments

First Amendment

5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition

Second Amendment

Right to bear arms

Third Amendment

No quartering of soldiers

Fourth Amendment

Protects against unreasonable search and seizure

Fifth Amendment

protects right to due process, prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy

Sixth Amendment

Right to a speedy and public trial

Seventh Amendment

Right to trial by jury

Eighth Amendment

Prohibits excessive fines and bail and cruel and unusual punishment

Ninth Amendment

protects rights not enumerated in the Constitution

10th Amendment

Powers not given to federal government go to people and States

11th Amendment

Lays foundation for sovereign immunity

12th Amendment

President and VP are elected together

13th Amendment

abolished slavery

14th Amendment

Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues

15th Amendment

Prohibits denial of right to vote based on race

16th Amendment

Allows the federal government to collect income tax

17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex

20th Amendment

Congress begins on January 3; President starts on January 20

21st Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition

22nd Amendment

Limits the president to two terms.

23rd Amendment

Grants District of Columbia electors

24th Amendment

Abolishes poll taxes

25th Amendment

Presidential succession

26th Amendment

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

27th Amendment

congressional pay raises are not begun until the next election