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Roles of Congress
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11th Amendment
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extenxd to any suit in low or Equity, commenced or presecuted against one of the United States by Citzens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. -
12th Amendment
The 12th Amendment says the person who has the highest number of votes for President will then be elected as President -
Cultural Amendments
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13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been dually convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
14th Amendment
It granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person life liberty or property without due process of law. Or to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws. -
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring 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. -
Voting Rights
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16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without appointment among the several states, and without regard to any sentence or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state elected by the people. When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the senate, the exectutive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. -
18th Amendment
Section 1: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacturer, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within are all subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2: The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
19th Amendment
The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on the account of sex. -
20th Amendment
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the twentieth day of January and the Senators and Representatives at noon on the third day of January. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the third day of January unless they shall by law appoint a different day. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elected shall have died, the Vice President elected shall become President -
21st Amendment
The transportation into any state, territory, or possesion of the United States for delievery or use therein of intoxicating liquors and violatons of the law thereof hereby prohibited. -
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
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of senators and repersenatives in congress to which the district would be entitled if it were a state. -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election or Vice President. -
25th Amendment
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death, the Vice President shall become President. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States who are 18 years of age or older to vote shall not be denied by the United States or any state on account of age. -
27th Amendment
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Represenatives shall take effect until the election of Repersentatives shall have intervine.
