Constitutional Amendments

Question 1

First Amendment

Answer 1

Free Exercise Clause, Establishment Clause, freedom to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

Question 2

Third Amendment

Answer 2

No quartering of soldiers in homes

Question 3

Fourth Amendment

Answer 3

Protection against illegal search and seizure

Question 4

Fifth Amendment

Answer 4

Freedom from Self-Incrimination, Double Jeopardy Immunity, Due Process Clause, “no private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” (eminent domain)

Question 5

Sixth Amendment

Answer 5

Right to Counsel, swift trial, impartial jury, right to confront witnesses, right to obtain witnesses

Question 6

Eighth Amendment

Answer 6

Protection from Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Question 7

Ninth Amendment

Answer 7

”The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

Question 8

Tenth Amendment

Answer 8

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Question 9

Twelfth Amendment

Answer 9

Changes in manner of electing president and vice president; procedure when no presidential candidate receives electoral majority (1804)

Question 10

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 10

Banned slavery

Question 11

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 11

Equal Protection Clause, guaranteed citizenship to those born/naturalized in US, Due Process Clause, freedom from intrusion of Privileges and Immunities

Question 12

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 12

Suffrage cannot be denied due to race, color, servitude, etc.

Question 13

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 13

Popular election of senators

Question 14

Nineteenth Amendment

Answer 14

Universal Female Suffrage

Question 15

Twenty-second Amendment

Answer 15

president limited to 2 terms

Question 16

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Answer 16

Abolished Poll Taxes

Question 17

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Answer 17

Reduction of Voting Age to 18

Question 18

Twenty-seventh Amendment

Answer 18

Congressional Pay Limitation

Question 19

Eleventh Amendment

Answer 19

specifically prohibits federal courts from hearing cases in which a state is sued by an individual from another state or another country.

Question 20

Eighteenth Amendment

Answer 20

Prohibition of alcohol

Question 21

Twentieth Amendment

Answer 21

Pres/VP: Mar. 4 to Jan, 20; Congress Mar. 4 to Jan. 3

Question 22

Twenty-third Amendment

Answer 22

Washington DC given electoral college votes

Question 23

Twenty-fifth Amendment

Answer 23

If no VP, pres. appoints one and is approved by 2/3 of Senate