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The original amendments of the constitution are adopted.
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Sovereign Immunity
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Revises presidential election procedures.
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Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues.
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Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Permits Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
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Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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Prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol within the United States.
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Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex.
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Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President (January 20) and Senators and Representatives (January 3) end and begin.
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Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibits the transportation or importation into the United States of alcohol for delivery or use in violation of applicable laws.
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Limits the number of times that a person can be elected president: a person cannot be elected president more than twice, and a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected cannot be elected more than once.
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Grants the District of Columbia electors (the number of electors being equal to the least populous state) in the Electoral College.
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Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of a poll tax or any other tax.
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Addresses succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.
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Prohibits the denial of the right of US citizens, eighteen years of age or older, to vote on account of age.
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Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives.