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Amendment 6
Rifht to a Speedy, Fair Trial - sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states -
Amendment 10
Powers Reserved to the States - The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution of the United States are reserved to the states or the people. -
Amendment 1
Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition- the amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble -
Amendment 2
Right to Bear Arms - protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms -
Amendment 3
No Quartering of Troops - prohibits, in peacetime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent. It makes quartering legally permissible in wartime only, and then only according to law. -
Amendment 4
Searches and Seizures - guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. The amendment specifically also requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance -
Amendment 5
Rights of the Accused Persons - protects against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure -
Amendment 7
Civil Suits - codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil trials -
Amendment 8
Bail and Punishment - which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments -
Amendment 9
Powers Reserved to the people - addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution -
Amendment 11
Suits against States - deals with each state's sovereign immunity from being sued in federal court by someone of another state or country -
Amendment 12
Election of President and Vice President - provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected together -
Amendment 13
Abolition of Slavery - officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery -
Amendment 14
Rights of Citizens - 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 -
Amendment 15
Right to Vote - prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
Amendment 16
Income Tax - This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements -
Amendment 17
Direct Election of Senators - established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote -
Amendment 18
Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverages - banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol -
Amendment 19
Womens Suffrage - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Amendment 20
Lame-Duck Amendment - establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices -
Amendment 21
Repeal of Prohibition Amendment - repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide Prohibition -
Amendment 22
Limit on Presidential Terms - sets a term limit for the President of the United States -
Amendment 23
Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia - permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President -
Amendment 24
Ablition of the Poll Tax - shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax -
Amendment 25
Presidential Disability and Succission - establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities -
Amendment 26
Eighteen-Year-Old Vote - imited the minimum voting age to no more than 18 -
Amendment 27
Restraint on Congressional Salaries - prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives
