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Guarantees the right to the freedoms of speech, press, and religion. Protects the right to petition the government. -
Guarantees the people’s right to own and bear arms for their defense -
Citizens cannot be forced to quarter soldiers during times of peace -
Citizens cannot be forced to subject themselves to seizure and search without a search warrant and probable cause.
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Reserves individuals’ rights to jury trial depending on the civil case, and cases already examined by not be re-opened by another court.
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Forbids exorbitant bails and fines and punishment that is unusual or cruel.
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Reserves the rights of citizens which are not specifically mentioned by the U.S. Constitution. -
Prohibits abuse of governmental authority in legal procedures. Establishes rules for indictment by eminent domain and grand jury. Guarantees the due process rights. Protects citizens from self-incrimination and double jeopardy. -
Guarantees fair and speedy jury trial and the rights to know the accusation, the accuser, and to find counsel and witnesses. -
Reserves powers that are not given to the U.S. government under the Constitution, nor prohibited to a State of the U.S., to the people and the States.
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State sovereign immunity. States are protected from suits by citizens living in another state or foreigners that do not reside within the state borders -
judicial review, federalism, separation of powers -
Modifies and clarifies the procedure for electing vice-presidents and presidents. -
state taxes, national supremacy
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states rights, commerce clause -
First Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York
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slavery, due process, Missouri compromise -
one of the bitterest civil wars in the world. Almost 600,000 people were killed and many others wounded. The war began when the Southern States opened fire on Fort Sumter. Lincoln declared war on them. it lasted from April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865.
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Except as punishment for criminal offense, forbids forced-slavery and involuntary servitude.
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Details Equal Protection Clause, Due Process Clause, Citizenship Clause, and clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.
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Reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their race, color, or previous slave status. -
equal protection, separate but equal -
Reserves the U.S. government the right to tax income. -
Establishes popular voting as the process under which senators are elected. -
Denies the sale and consumption of alcohol. -
freedom of speech military draft
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also known as the “lame duck amendment,” establishes date of term starts for Congress (January 3) & the President (January 20) -
Details the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. State laws over alcohol are to remain. -
Japanese internment equal protection
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Limit the terms that an individual can be elected as president (at most two terms). Individuals who have served over two years of someone else’s term may not be elected more than once. -
school segregation, equal protection
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Reserves the right of citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for their own Electors for presidential elections.
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Search and seizure, exclusionary rule, due process
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rayer in school, freedom of religion, separation of church and state
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right to counsel, due process
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citizens cannot be denied the suffrage rights for not paying a poll tax or any other taxes.
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self- incrimination, due process -
establishes the procedures for a successor of a President. -
student speech, symbolic speech -
Reserves the right for citizens 18 and older to vote.
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abortion, right to privacy
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watergate, executive privilege, check and balances -
affirmative action, equal protection
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student search and seizure -
censorship, student speech
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flag burning freedom of speech -
Denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.
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marriage equality, federalism, equal protection
