Amendments

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1st Amendment

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1. The 1st amendment is the five basic freedoms.

2. These freedoms are religion, speech, petition, assembly, and press.

3. The congress cannot make a law that violates these freedoms.

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2nd Amendment

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1. The 2nd amendment is the right to bear arms.

2. People have the rights to own guns and weapons.

3. These freedoms are there, but restricted.

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3rd Amendment

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1. The 3rd amendment is quartering soldiers.

2. Soldiers cannot bust into a house and live there without the person's consent.

3. This amendment prevents the people having to house soldiers.

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4th Amendment

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1. The 4th amendment is the right to privacy.

2. Everyone has the right to their privacy.

3. The government cannot bust into your house unless they have a warrant.

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5th Amendment

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1. The 5th amendment is the rights of the accused.

2. Police officers has to read a person's Miranda Rights.

3. No person has to answer the capital. "I plea the fifth."

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6th Amendment

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1. The 6th amendment is the right to a speedy, fair trial.

2. The people get an impartial jury.

3. The trial starts in the state and district in which the crime was committed.

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7th Amendment

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1. The 7th Amendment is the right to a civil trial.

2. Guarantees the right to jury trial in civil suits involving $20.00 or more.

3. "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

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8th Amendment

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1. The 8th amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments.

2. This prohibits excessive bail or fines or unusual punishment.

3. No person of authority can abuse or excessively fine someone for a punishment.

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9th Amendment

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1. The 9th amendment is the rights of the people.

2. These are the rights that are not specifically enumerated in the constitution.

3. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

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10th Amendment

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1. The 10th amendment is the rights of the states.

2. This amendment helps to define the concept of federalism.

3. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

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11th Amendment

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1. The 11th amendment limits lawsuits against the states.

2. A citizen of one state can't sue the government of another state unless it is done in that state.

3. The judicial branch cannot extend lawsuits protected against the U.S. by a citizen of another state or country.

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12th Amendment

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1. The 12th Amendment revises the procedure for the election of a president.

2. The electors must meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for the president and vice president.

3. It modifies the way the electoral college chooses the president and vice president.

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13th Amendment

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1. The 13th amendment abolishes slavery.

2. Declares that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the US, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

3. President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures.

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14th Amendment

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1. The 14th amendment defines citizenship.

2. This amendment was adopted as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

3. This addresses citizenship rights and equal protection laws.

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15th Amendment

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1. The 15th amendment prohibits restrictions on the right to vote based on race and color.

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

3. This amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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16th Amendment

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1. The 16th amendment gives congress the power to levy an income tax.

2. Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes.

3. Congress can do this without regard to any consensus or enumeration.

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17th Amendment

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1. The 17th amendment enables voters to elect senators directly.

2. The US senate should be composed of 2 senators from every state.

3. Each senator has a six year term.

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18th Amendment

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1. The 18th amendment prohibits making, drinking, or selling alcoholic beverages.

2. People believed that prohibition would would reduce crime and corruption.

3. This actually helped the rate of alcohol related deaths in the US.

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19th Amendment

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1. The 19th amendment gives women the right to vote.

2. This fight went on for so long that some of the early supporters didn't live to see the victory.

3. This amendment guarantees American women the right to vote.

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20th Amendment

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1. The 20th amendment changes the dates of congressional and presidential terms.

2. The terms of the president ends at noon on the 20th of January, and the terms of the senators and representatives ends at noon on the 3rd day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified.

3. The congress shall assemble at least once every year.

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21st Amendment

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1. The 21st amendment repeals prohibition.

2. This completely repeals the 18th amendment.

3. Having so much alcohol that the user becomes intoxicated is illegal.

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22nd Amendment

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1. The 22nd amendment limits the president to 2 terms.

2. This amendment applies to the people that have stepped in as president also.

3. If any person has had to step into the position of president, then they are limited to two terms of president.

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23rd Amendment

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1. The 23rd amendment gives residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote.

2. The congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

3. People of power in Washington are allowed to vote.

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24th Amendment

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1. The 24th amendment abolishes poll taxes.

2. A person is still allowed to vote if they cannot pay poll taxes.

3. The congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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25th Amendment

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1. The 25th amendment establishes procedure for succession to the presidency.

2. If something happens to the president where he cannot continue his duties, then the vice president takes the president position.

3. This article establishes the line of position to take over the spot of president if the person above them cannot take the place.

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26th Amendment

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1. The 26th amendment sets voting age 18 years.

2. If someone is old enough to defend our country, then they are old enough to vote.

3. The congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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27th Amendment

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1. The 27th amendment delays congressional pay raises until the term following the passage.

2. No law put in place of the government's pay can be put into place until a new term happens.

3. The election of representatives will have to intervene.