Constitutional Amendments Flashcards
First Amendment
Free Exercise Clause, Establishment Clause, freedom to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Third Amendment
No quartering of soldiers in homes
Fourth Amendment
Protection against illegal search and seizure
Fifth Amendment
Freedom from Self-Incrimination, Double Jeopardy Immunity, Due Process Clause, “no private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” (eminent domain)
Sixth Amendment
Right to Counsel, swift trial, impartial jury, right to confront witnesses, right to obtain witnesses
Eighth Amendment
Protection from Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Ninth Amendment
”The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Tenth Amendment
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.
Twelfth Amendment
Changes in manner of electing president and vice president; procedure when no presidential candidate receives electoral majority (1804)
Thirteenth Amendment
Banned slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
Equal Protection Clause, guaranteed citizenship to those born/naturalized in US, Due Process Clause, freedom from intrusion of Privileges and Immunities
Fifteenth Amendment
Suffrage cannot be denied due to race, color, servitude, etc.
Seventeenth Amendment
Popular election of senators
Nineteenth Amendment
Universal Female Suffrage
Twenty-second Amendment
president limited to 2 terms
