Amendment Test Tues

Amendments 1-19 and Their Definitions

  1. First Amendment: Protects the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

  2. Second Amendment: Protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

  3. Third Amendment: Prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent during peacetime.

  4. Fourth Amendment: Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; requires a warrant to be judicially sanctioned and backed by probable cause.

  5. Fifth Amendment: Establishes rights related to legal proceedings, including protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy, and guarantees due process.

  6. Sixth Amendment: Guarantees the right to a fair and speedy public trial by an impartial jury, and to be informed of the nature of the charges.

  7. Seventh Amendment: Guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases where the amount in controversy exceeds twenty dollars.

  8. Eighth Amendment: Prohibits excessive bail and fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishments.

  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 to the people.

  11. Eleventh Amendment: Limits the ability of individuals to sue states in federal court.

  12. Twelfth Amendment: Provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, modifying the original electoral process.

  13. Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

  14. Fourteenth Amendment: Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and guarantees equal protection under the law and due process.

  15. Fifteenth Amendment: Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

  16. Sixteenth Amendment: Authorizes the federal government to impose an income tax.

  17. Seventeenth Amendment: Establishes the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people.

  18. Eighteenth Amendment: Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors (later repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment).

  19. Nineteenth Amendment: Grants women the right to vote, prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.