amendments Flashcards
first amendment
5 Freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
second amendment
right to keep and bear arms
third amendment
no quartering of troops
fourth amendment
protection against unreasonable search and seizure without a warrant
fifth amendment
government must give grand jury; same crime can’t be tried twice
sixth amendment
right to a speedy trial
seventh amendment
right to trial by jury involving more than 20 dollars
eighth amendment
no excessive bail; no cruel and unusual punishment
ninth amendment
rights reserved for the people
tenth amendment
powers reserved to the states
eleventh amendment
a person cannot sue a state they do not live in
twelfth amendment
president and vice president are put up on separate ballots
thirteenth amendment
abolished slavery
fourteenth amendment
anyone born in the US is a citizen
fifteenth amendment
states cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race
sixteenth amendment
right of government to collect income taxes
seventeenth amendment
direct election of senators by voters instead of state legislatures
eighteenth amendment
prohibition of alcohol
ninteenth amendment
women’s suffrage
twentieth amendment
changed inauguration day from march to january
twenty- first amendment
repealed the 18th amendment
twenty-second amendment
president can only serve two terms
twenty-third amendment
grants presidential voting rights to DC
twenty-fourth amendment
eliminated poll tax
twenty-fifth amendment
presidential succession allows for presidential cabinet to remove the president from office
twenty-sixth amendment
lowered voting age from 21 to 18
twenty-seventh amendment
limits power of congress to increase its own salaries
twenty-seventh amendment
limits power of congress to increase its own salaries
twenty-seventh amendment
limits power of congress to increase its own salaries
