27 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

1st AMENDMENT•Freedom speech, press, religion, petition, assembly

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2nd Amendment• Right to Bear

Arms

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3rd Amendment

• No quartering troops (peace time)

I don’t think so.

4th AMENDMENT•NO illegal search and

seizure

• Katz v. United States – public phone

5th Amendment• NO double jeopardy;

no self-incrimination; eminent domain

6th Amendment• Speedy trial by jury

of peers and an attorney

• CRIMINAL CASES

7th Amendment• Civil Trials – right to jury in Federal cases

over $20

8th Amendment

• No cruel and Unusual Punishment

• No Excessive

Bail

9th Amendment• Rights not written in the

Constitution belong to the people

• Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965

• Garner v. Texas 2003

• Roe v. Wade

10th AMENDMENT

•Powers reserved for states

• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States

respectively, or to the people. • Marriage

• Schools

• Drinking

11th Amendment• No lawsuits

against states.

VS.

12th Amendment

• Election of President and Vice President (on same ballot)

• Electoral College

13th Amendment• Outlawed slavery

14th Amendment• Equal protection (due

process)“Section 1. All persons born

or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Plyler v. Doe

15th Amendment• Right to vote –

BLACK males

16th Amendment• Federal Income

Tax established

17th Amendment

• Popular election of Senators

2 Senators=

18th Amendment

• Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors.

19th Amendment• Equal Suffrage for

women

20th Amendment

• TERMS of Congress & President/VP begin

Jan. 3Jan. 20

21st Amendment

• Repeal of 18th Amendment

22nd Amendment

• Presidential Term limits

2-four year terms

or

10 years total

23rd Amendment• Presidential

Electors for the District of Columbia

Electors

for

24th Amendment

• Right to vote in Federal Elections-NO POLL TAX

25th Amendment

• Presidential Succession

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26th Amendment

• Right to vote- Age 18

27th Amendment

• Congressional Pay - limited