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Alexander Chisholm attempted to sue the State of Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court over payments due to him for goods that Robert Farquhar had supplied Georgia during the American Revolutionary War.
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The 11th was created to prohibit the federal courts
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In the election of 1800, the Federalist John Adams ran against the Republican Thomas Jefferson. The partisan campaign failed to provide a clear winner. Presidential electors were required to vote for two people for the offices of president and vice-president. With all the commotion during this election brought up the idea of a better voting system introducing the 12th amendment
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Provided for separate Electoral College votes for President and Vice President, Allowing the electoral college to improve.
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Women in America first organized in 1848 at the First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY to fight for suffrage. Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the convention sparked the women's suffrage movement
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several states seceded from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, but before he took office March 4, 1861. It was these concerns that led to 20th Amendment to the Constitution
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Was an event that was necessary issued by President Abraham Lincoln, did not end slavery entirely; but those enslaved in border states had not been freed, which later on led to the 13th
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The 13 Amendment abolished slavery in the US and states that it can not be a thing unless for a crime punishment.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 passes, giving citizenship rights to anyone born in the U.S. citizenship. However, civil rights activists were concerned that the Act was not permanent and chose to fight for a constitutional amendment leading to the passing of the 14 Amendment
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The 14th gave citizenship to all people born in the US, as well as citizens rights/protection from the laws.
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secured the right to vote for African American men, It states that “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.
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The rise of the People's Party, commonly referred to as the Populist Party, added motivation for making the Senate more directly accountable to the people. During the 1890s, the House of Representatives passed several resolutions proposing a constitutional amendment for the direct election of senators , later coming 17th Amendment.
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A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court voided portions of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 that imposed a direct tax on the incomes of American citizens and corporations, thus declaring the federal income tax unconstitutional, later on delt with by the 16th Amendment
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The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society’s ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption
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The 16th Gave congress the power set down and collect taxes on income from any source without having to deal with apportionment
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The 17th Amendment gave people the right to vote for their senators instead of just the state legislature , as well as giving the governor the ability to pick a new senator if a seat is open.
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The 18th Amendment made it illegal to sell or manufacture alcoholic drinks. Later repealed by the 21st Amendment
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It said that any women older than 21 can vote and cannot be denied due to gender
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prohibition led to a rise in crime, as the bootlegging of alcohol became dangerous operations. In 1933, widespread public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment
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It changed the date that the president, vice president, and members of Congress start to January, and it says who becomes president if the president cannot start serving immediately
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repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America
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After FDR died in 1945, many Americans began to recognize that having a president serve more than eight years was bad for the country thus the reason the 22nd was created
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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With the Vietnam War there was an argument that those old enough to be drafted for military service, should be able to have the right to vote.
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gives people of Washington DC the right to vote
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prohibits Congress from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax
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it says that if the President is unable to fill in his position then the VP will take over their place
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lowered the age to vote from 21 to 18
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27th Says that Congress can't give themselves raises mid-term. They may vote on a raise, but it will not take effect until the next session
