Ammendments

The United States Constitution has 27 amendments, which serve to clarify and expand upon the original document. Below is a summary of each amendment:

1. First Amendment

   • Protects the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

2. Second Amendment

   • Protects the right to keep and bear arms.

3. Third Amendment

   • Prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime without the owner's consent.

4. Fourth Amendment

   • Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause.

5. Fifth Amendment

   • Guarantees the right to due process and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy.

6. Sixth Amendment

   • Guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial, impartial jury, and the right to counsel.

7. Seventh Amendment

   • Provides for the right to a jury trial in civil cases.

8. Eighth Amendment

   • Prohibits excessive bail and fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment.

9. Ninth Amendment

   • States that the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution does not deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.

10. Tenth Amendment

    • Affirms that powers not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.

11. Eleventh Amendment

    • Limits the ability of individuals to sue states in federal court.

12. Twelfth Amendment

    • Revises the presidential election process by requiring separate ballots for President and Vice President.

13. Thirteenth Amendment

    • Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude.

14. Fourteenth Amendment

    • Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees equal protection under the law.

15. Fifteenth Amendment

    • Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

16. Sixteenth Amendment

    • Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.

17. Seventeenth Amendment

    • Establishes the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.

18. Eighteenth Amendment

    • Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors (later repealed by the 21st Amendment).

19. Nineteenth Amendment

    • Grants women the right to vote.

20. Twentieth Amendment

    • Changes the start and end dates for presidential and congressional terms.

21. Twenty-First Amendment

    • Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment, thus ending Prohibition.

22. Twenty-Second Amendment

    • Limits presidents to two terms in office.

23. Twenty-Third Amendment

    • Grants the District of Columbia electors in the Electoral College.

24. Twenty-Fourth Amendment

    • Prohibits the use of poll taxes in federal elections.

25. Twenty-Fifth Amendment

    • Clarifies presidential succession and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President.

26. Twenty-Sixth Amendment

    • Lowers the voting age to 18 years.

27. Twenty-Seventh Amendment

    • Delays the effectiveness of any law that changes the salary of Members of Congress until after the next election.