27 Amendments

1st Amendment: Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
hint: RA(S)PP! (Religion, Assembly, Speech, Press, Petition) - You get all 5 for the 1st.

2nd Amendment: Right to Bear Arms
hint: 2 arms, 2 bear arms.

3rd Amendment: Quartering Soldiers
hint: 3 is a crowd —> no crowding soldiers into here

4th Amendment: Search and Seizure
hint: 4 walls = house

5th Amendment: Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Due Process, Takings
hint: “Plead the 5th” - Don't incriminate yourself!

6th Amendment: Right to Speedy Trial by Jury, Witnesses, Counsel
hint: 🐆🐆 6 rights for a speedy trial. (Speedy, Counsel, Jury, Witnesses)

7th Amendment: Jury Trial in Civil Lawsuits
hint: $$7 civil: If it's over seven dollars, you might get a jury.

8th Amendment: Excessive Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
hint: being alive is cruel and unusual and 8 is the number of life

9th Amendment: Non-Enumerated Rights Retained by People
hint: 9 is mine: If it's not listed, it's still your right.

10th Amendment: Power Reserved to States or People
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11th Amendment: Suits Against States
Explanation: Prohibits federal courts from hearing cases brought against a state by a citizen of another state or by a foreign country.

hint: 11 (one-on-one) states can't be sued easily.

12th Amendment: Election of President and Vice President
hint: 12th = 1 —> 2 ballots —> elected separately

13th Amendment: Abolition of Slavery

hint:

14th Amendment: Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt

hint: in between abolition and voting for other races

15th Amendment: Right to Vote Not Denied by Race

hint:

16th Amendment: Income Tax

hint: 16: Sweet Sixteen, pay your income tax!

17th Amendment: Popular Election of Senators

hint: Seeeventeen = Seeenate election

18th Amendment: Prohibition of Liquor

hint: you want to drink but can’t

19th Amendment: Women’s Right to Vote

hint: 2nd to last (20) thing they’d want is a woman in office

20th Amendment: Presidential Term and Succession, Assembly of Congress

hint: Jan 20th: Inauguration Day (Lame Duck Amendment). 20 is beginning

21st Amendment: Repeal of Prohibition

hint: 21 is the age you can drink

22nd Amendment: Two-Term Limit on Presidency

hint: 22 —> 2 term limit

23rd Amendment: Presidential Vote for D.C.

hint: 23 —> D.C. gets 3 votes

24th Amendment: Abolition of Poll Taxes

hint: you will be on the pole by 24

25th Amendment: Presidential Disability and Succession

hint: 25 alive if President dies: VP steps in.

26th Amendment: Right to Vote at Age 18

hint: 2nd to last thing they would want is new ideas

27th Amendment: Congressional Compensation

Explanation: No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

hint: Congress can't get rich quick;