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The XI amendment
The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. Nobody can sue a state in federal court without that state's permission. -
The XII Amendment
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves . . . Electors cast two seperate votes, one for president and one for vice president. -
The XIII Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. The XIII Amendment states that slavery is illegal throughout the nation. -
The XIV Amendment: section 1.
Everyone (including former slaves) born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen of the country, as well as the state they live in. 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 . . . -
The XIV Amendment: Section 2
The number of Representatives divided among the states depends on the population of each state. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members ... -
The XIV Amendment: Section 3
No person who has previously taken an oath into office (Congress, presidential, vice presidential etc) is allowed to engage in activities against or in harm to the state (country). No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any . . -
The XIV Amendment: Section 4
Allows citizens the right to hold and maintain a personal debt for any reason but prohibits the state from assuming that debt if the debt is related to funding rebellion or harmful actions toward the state.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt ... -
The XIV amendment: section 5
Congress have the power to enforce the provisions of the XIV Amendment The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article -
The XV Amendment
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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The national and state governments cannot use peoples race, color, or previous slavery to stop them from voting. -
The XVI Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. The National Government has the power to tax incomes. -
The XVII Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
The XVII Amendment states that the people of each state elect their U.S. Senators directly. -
The XVIII Amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
This Amendment prohibts the making, importing, exporting, or selling of acholoic beverages. -
The XIX Amendment
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. The government cannot use people's gender to stop them from voting. -
The XX Amendment
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. States that before their succesors go into office a President and Vice president's term will end on January 20th while a Senator and Representative's term will end on January 3rd. -
The XXI Amendment
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Prohibition of making, selling, importing, or exporting alcholoic beverages is repealed. -
The XXII Amendment
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. No one can be elected for president more than two times and anyone who has held the office of president for more than two years can only be elected one more term. -
The XXIII Amendment
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state . . . Washington D.C. is given presidential electors as if it were a state. -
The XXIV Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, 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 Poll taxes could no longer be used to vote -
The XXV Amendment
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. . . If the President resigns or dies in office the Vice President will take his place. -
The XXVI Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. The government cannot use people's age to stop them from voting as long as they are over 18 years old. -
The XXVII Amendment
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened. When Congress gives officials raises, a general election must be completed before it goes into affect.
