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Lesson 1.4 Constitutional Amendments and State Constitutions

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  • The Twelfth Amendment

    The Twelfth Amendment

    The Twelfth Amendment gave use to the Electoral College method for voting for the President.
  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment

    This amendment abolishes slavery after the civil war.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment

    The Fourteenth Amendment

    This amendment give the right for equal protection through all states as well as prohibiting a person to life, liberty or property.
  • The Fiftheenth Amendment

    The Fiftheenth Amendment

    This amendment allows all races to vote, prohibiting states to deny a race to vote.
  • The Sixteenth Amendment

    The Sixteenth Amendment

    Congress now has the power to levy individual income taxes.
  • The Seventeenth Amendment

    The Seventeenth Amendment

    This changed gave people the power to elect United States Senators instead of the state legislatures.
  • The Nineteenth Amendment

    The Nineteenth Amendment

    This amendment guaranteed women a right to vote.
  • The Twentieth Amendment

    The Twentieth Amendment

    This changed the dates when the President were inaugurated and when Congress begins its new term
  • The Twenty First Amendment

    The Twenty First Amendment

    This amendment repealed the 18th amendment, which was the ban of alcoholic beverages.
  • The Twenty-Second Amendment

    The Twenty-Second Amendment

    This limits a president's elected to terms to only two. This was due in fact of FDR having four terms.
  • The Twenty-Fifth Amendment

    The Twenty-Fifth Amendment

    This change would let the vice-president become the president, taking over the office if the president had become disabled or if the office is somehow vacant
  • The Twenty-Sixth Amendment

    The Twenty-Sixth Amendment

    This let all ages 18 and older to vote in federal and state elction.
  • The Twenty Seventh Amendment

    The Twenty Seventh Amendment

    This made congressional pay raises effective during the term followin the passage