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Amendment XI
-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 eleventh amendment protects the states from lawsuits. -
Amendment XII
-...they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President...
-The twelth amendment requires that people running for president and vice-president need to have seperate ballots. -
Amendment XIII
-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 place subject to their jurisdiction.
-The thirteenth amendment bans all slavery. -
Amendment XIII Section III
-No person shall...hold any office, civil or military, under the United States... having previously take an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, ...to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engeged in...rebellion against the same.
-If someone rebelled against an oath that they made to suport the US Constitution, they cannot hold an office that is civil or a military office. -
Amendment XIII Section IV
-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...rebellion, shall not be questioned.
-You can't question debt, you just have to pay. -
Amendment XIV Section I
-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, without due process of law...
-All people born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens and cannot have their rights taken away. -
Amendment XIV Section II
-...When the right to vote at any election... is denied to any male inhabitants of such State, being twenty one years od age, ... except for participation in rebellion,... the basis of representation... shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens...
-If a State denies a male of 21 or older, that States representation gts reduced in proportion to the number of males thay denied the right to.
-All men at or above the age o 21 can vote. -
Amendment XV
-The right of citizens of the Uited 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.
-Regardless of race/color, everybody shall have he right to vote. -
Amendment XVI
-The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, withouh apportinment among the several States, and without regard to any census of enumeration.
-Congress shall be allowed to cllect taes on income without regard to any census of enumeration. -
Amendment XVII
-The Senate of the United States shall be composed tw Senators form each state, elected by the people...When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies...
-The senate of the united States will be made up of two senagtors from each State that are lected by the people. when there is a vacancy, the executive authoruty of that State cwill have to issue writs to fill in the spot. -
Amendment XVIII
-After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or th exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to he jurisdiction thereof for beverag purposes is hereby prohibited.
-Intoxicating liquors cannot be manufactured or sold to or by the United States. -
Amendment XIX
-The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
-No matter man or woman, everyone should enjoy the right to vote. -
Amendment XX Section I
-The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators...on the 3rd day of January.
-The terms of the President sand Vice President will end on the 20th of January and the Senators' on th 3rd day. -
Amendment XX Section II
-The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting will begin at noon on the third day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
-Congres must meet on the third of January at noon evry year unless the date is changed by law. -
Amendment XX Section III
-If, at the time fixed for the biginning of the term of the President, the President shall have died, the Vice President shall become President.
-If the President dies, the Vice President will become the President. -
Amendment XX Section IV
-The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for and for the case of the death of any of the persons of whom the Snate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice sall have devolved upon them.
-Congress can choose the President or Vice President if they die only if the right of choice is devolved upon them. -
Amendment XXI
-The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the unitd States is hereby repealed. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possesion of the United States for delivery or us therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
-The eighteenth amendment is cancelled. Intoxicating liqours can now be transported or imported to or from the United States. -
Amendment XXII
-No person shall be elected to the office of the Presiden more than twice...
-No one can be President for more than two terms. -
Amendment XXIII
-A number of electors of President and Vice President equal the whole number of Senators and Representativs in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than th least populous state...
-The number of candidates running for President and Vice President will equal the number of Senators and be no more than the least populous state. -
Amendment XXIV
-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 dened or abrided by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
-Even if you dont pay taxes, you still have the right to vote in elections for President, Vice President, Senator, or Representative in Congress. -
Amendment XXV Section I-II
-In case of...the President['s]...death or resignation, the Vice President shall beome President. Whenever there is a vacancy...[for] Vice President, the Presidnet shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
-If the President dies/resigns, the Vice President becomes the President. If there isn't a Vice President, the President nominates someone to become President if they get a majority vote fom both Houses of Congress. -
Amendment XXV Section IV
-When the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office...
-When the President says that there is no inability to do his work, he can resume the duties of office. -
Amendment XXV Section III
-Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such as powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting Pesident.
-If the President is unable to do something, the Vice President will do it. -
Amendment XXVI
-The right of the 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.
-If you are eighteen years old or older you have th right to vote. -
Amendment XXVII
-No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators a Reprsenatatives, shall take effect, untile an election of representatives sall have intervened.
-The 27th Amendment 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.
