amendments identification Flashcards
Which amendment is known as the reserved powers amendment?
10th Amendment
Which amendment deals with procedural due process?
5th Amendment
Which amendment forbids excessive bail or fines?
8th Amendment
Which amendment gave three electoral votes to Washington, D.C?
23rd Amendment
Which amendment deals with quartering (housing) of troops in private homes?
3rd Amendment
Which amendment deals with substantive due process, and the equal protection clause?
14th Amendment
Which amendment deals with limiting the terms of office of the POTUS to two terms or ten years?
22nd Amendment
Which amendment deals with issues regarding unreasonable search and seizure?
4th Amendment
Which amendment guarantees jury trials regarding civil cases that fall under Federal Jurisdiction?
7th Amendment
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
Which amendment is known as the unenumerated rights amendment?
9th Amendment
Which amendment ensures that suffrage will not be abridged on the basis of a person’s race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
15th Amendment
Which amendment legalized income tax?
16th Amendment
Which amendment states that Congress can’t immediately vote itself a pay raise?
27th Amendment
Which amendment relegalized alcohol consumption/sales in the United States?
21st Amendment
Which amendment made alcohol illegal for consumption/sales in the United States?
18th Amendment
Which amendment established the civil liberties of speech, press, religion, peaceful assembly and to petition the government?
1st Amendment
Which amendment split the electoral ballot into separate ballots?
12th Amendment
Which amendment explains that a state cannot be sued by a citizen of another state, nor by a foreign country?
11th Amendment
Which amendment resulted in suffrage for women?
19th Amendment
Which amendment prohibited poll taxes?
24th Amendment
Which amendment granted suffrage rights to those 18 years of age and older?
26th Amendment
Which amendment preserves the right to bear arms?
2nd Amendment
Which amendment guarantees those accused of crimes a fair, speedy trial, the right to know their accusers, the right to defense counsel, etcetera?
6th Amendment
Which amendment is known as the presidential inability amendment?
25th Amendment
Which amendment is known as the direct election of Senators Amendment?
17th Amendment
Which amendments appearing in the Bill of Rights, were enacted to protect those accused of crimes?
4th, 5th, and 6th Amendment
Which amendments deal with the right of suffrage?
15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th Amendment
Which amendment of the Bill of Rights is, to date, unsubstantiated?
4th Amendment