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11th Amendment
U.S. courts can't hear cases and make decisions against a state if the state is sued by a citizen who lives in another state or by a person who lives in another country. -
12th Amendment
each elector must cast their votes for president and vice president, instead of two votes for president. The Twelfth Amendment requires the Senate to choose between the candidates with the two highest numbers of electoral votes. -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery in the United States and provides that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, besides a punishment for crime where the party should have been properly convicted, should exist in the United States. -
14th Amendment
The Constitution of the United States, granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, also including them under the phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” -
15th 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. Came through by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
16th amendment
The Congress should have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source they please, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people, 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. -
18th 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 prohibited. -
19th 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. Passed to ensure that American citizens could no longer be denied the right to vote because of their sex. -
20th 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. -
21st amendment
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. Goes along with the 18th amendment -
22nd 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 -
23rd amendment
Not long ago, citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
24th 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. -
25th amendment
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. The order of succession specifies that the office passes to the vice president; if the vice presidency is simultaneously vacant, or if the vice president is also incapacitated, the powers and duties of the presidency pass to the speaker of the House of Representatives, president pro tempore of the Senate. -
26th 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. -
27th 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. prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of representatives' next set of terms of office.
