Review of the First 26 Constitutional Amendments

The United States Constitution has undergone amendment a total of $27$ times.
The first $10$ of these amendments are collectively classified and recognized as the Bill of Rights.
This document serves as a comprehensive breakdown regarding the first $26$ amendments, highlighting the ratification year and the primary legal focus of each.

The amendments constitutes the Bill of Rights, all of which were ratified in the year $1791$ .

$1$ . First Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment guarantees fundamental freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.
$2$ . Second Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment protects the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
$3$ . Third Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime.
$4$ . Fourth Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and establishes specific requirements for search warrants.
$5$ . Fifth Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment provides for the right against self-incrimination and double jeopardy, and ensures the guarantee of due process of law.
$6$ . Sixth Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment guarantees the right to a fair and speedy public trial by an impartial jury, as well as the right to legal counsel.
$7$ . Seventh Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment ensures the right to a jury trial in civil cases.
$8$ . Eighth Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment prohibits the imposition of excessive bail and the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
$9$ . Ninth Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment states that the enumeration of certain rights within the Constitution does not deny other rights that are retained by the people.
$10$ . Tenth Amendment ( $1791$ ): This amendment affirms that powers not specifically delegated to the federal government are reserved to the individual states or the people.

$11$ . Eleventh Amendment ( $1795$ ): This amendment limits the ability of individuals to sue states in federal court.
$12$ . Twelfth Amendment ( $1804$ ): This amendment revises the constitutional procedure for electing the President and Vice President.
$13$ . Thirteenth Amendment ( $1865$ ): This amendment abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, with the exception of servitude as punishment for crime.
$14$ . Fourteenth Amendment ( $1868$ ): This amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and guarantees equal protection under the law for all persons.
$15$ . Fifteenth Amendment ( $1870$ ): This amendment prohibits denying the right to vote based on factors such as race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
$16$ . Sixteenth Amendment ( $1913$ ): This amendment allows Congress the legal authority to levy an income tax.
$17$ . Seventeenth Amendment ( $1913$ ): This amendment establishes the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people rather than by state legislatures.
$18$ . Eighteenth Amendment ( $1919$ ): This amendment prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol, establishing the era of Prohibition.
$19$ . Nineteenth Amendment ( $1920$ ): This amendment grants women the right to vote.
$20$ . Twentieth Amendment ( $1933$ ): This amendment changes the dates of congressional and presidential terms; it is commonly known as the "Lame Duck Amendment."

$21$ . Twenty-First Amendment ( $1933$ ): This amendment repeats the Eighteenth Amendment, which effectively ended Prohibition.
$22$ . Twenty-Second Amendment ( $1951$ ): This amendment limits the President to serving only $2$ terms in office.
$23$ . Twenty-Third Amendment ( $1961$ ): This amendment grants the District of Columbia electors in the Electoral College.
$24$ . Twenty-Fourth Amendment ( $1964$ ): This amendment prohibits the use of poll taxes in federal elections.
$25$ . Twenty-Fifth Amendment ( $1967$ ): This amendment establishes legal procedures for presidential succession and addressing presidential disability.
$26$ . Twenty-Sixth Amendment ( $1971$ ): This amendment lowers the legal voting age to $18$ years.