Amendments Flashcards
Amendment 1
Freedom of religion, speech, the press, to petition, and to assemble
Amendment 2
The right to bear arms
Amendment 3
No quartering soldiers
Amendment 4
No unreasonable searches, seizures
Amendment 5
indictments; due process; self-incrimination; double jeopardy; eminent domain
Amendment 6
Right to counsel and fair trial
Amendment 7
Right to trial by jury, civil cases
Amendment 8
No excessive bail, fines, or cruel punishment
Amendment 9
Unenumerated rights of the people
Amendment 10
Rights reserved to states
Amendment 11
Immunity of states from out-of-states citizens
Amendment 12
Revision of presidential election procedures
Amendment 13
Abolition of slavery
Amendment 14
Citizenship offered to all; denies public office to rebels against the US
Amendment 15
Suffrage for all males
“prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.
Amendment 16
Allows federal income tax
Amendment 17
Direct election to US senate
Amendment 18
Prohibition
Amendment 19
Women’s suffrage
Amendment 20
Term commencement for president moved to Jan. 20A.K.A. “lame duck” amendment
Amendment 21
Repeals prohibition.
Amendment 22
Limits president to two terms.
Amendment 23
Washington D.C. now gets electoral college votes
Amendment 24
Prohibition of restriction of voting rights if you can’t pay poll taxes
Amendment 25
Presidential Succession
