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the 11th amendment states that 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. The amendment was proposed on march 4,1794 this amendment was passed to stop a federal lawsuit from being brought against a state without its consent.
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the first section of this amendment states that slavery or involuntary servitude shall exists in the u.s. except for the punishment of crime whereof the party have been duly convicted. this was put in place so there would be no more slavery of torchering of people for no good reason. the second section of this amendment states that the congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
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this amendment states all people born in the u.s. are u.s. citizens and subject to the jurisdiction and that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the u.s. nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. this was put in place because Congress submitted to the states three amendments as part of its Reconstruction program to guarantee equal civil and legal rights to black citizens.
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this amendment state that every u.s. citizen shall have the right to vote and will not be denied the right to vote no matter there face, gender, and ethnicity this amendment was passed so the women and people of color could now vote because before this only white men had the right to vote.
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this amendment states that 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. this amendment was created because unless the U.S. Congress expected all income taxes to be apportioned among the states according to their populations, the power to levy income taxes was rendered impotent.
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this amendment states that 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 arguments for the Seventeenth Amendment sounded in the case for direct democracy the problem of hung state legislatures
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The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production transport and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. Under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment Prohibition began on January 17 1920 one year after the amendment was ratified.The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and AntiSaloon League which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society's ills and led campaigns at the local state
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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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.The 19th Amendment was added to the Constitution, ensuring that American citizens could no longer be denied the right to vote because of their sex -
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal United States government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.Commonly known as the “Lame Duck Amendment,” the Twentieth Amendment was designed to remove the excessively long period of time a defeated president or member of Congress would continue to serve after his or her failed bid for reelection.
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the 21st amendment is repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America. Several states outlawed the manufacture or sale of alcohol within their own bordersIts influence began to wane, however, in the wake of lax enforcement of prohibition and the emerging illegal economies that quenched the thirst of many American adults.
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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 President more than oncelimits to two the number of times a person is eligible for election to the office of President of the United States.
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The 23rd amendment gives residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College. The 23rd amendment passed Congress in June of 1960 and reached the ¾ approval threshold less than a year later, on March 23, 1961The amendment grants the district electors in the Electoral College as though it were a state, though the district can never have more electors than the least-populous state.
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the 24th amendment outlaws the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86. At the time, five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters: Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. The poll tax exemplified “Jim Crow” laws, developed in the post-Reconstruction South, which aimed to disenfranchise black voters and institute segregation.
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President or Acting PresidentIt allows the vice president, together with a "majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide", to issue a written declaration that the president is unable to discharge his duties.
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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 draft conscripted young men between the ages of 18 and 21 into the armed forces, primarily the U.S. Army, to serve in or support military combat operations in Vietnam. A common slogan of proponents of lowering the voting age was "old enough to fight, old enough to vote".
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No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.To prevent members of Congress from arbitrarily giving themselves pay raises, the Constitution was amended with the 27th Amendment, which stated that, 'No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
