Contitutional Amendments (Unit 4, Lesson 3) Flashcards
What did the 11th Amendment say?
Set limits on when a state can be sued.
What did the 12th Amendment say?
Changed the presidential election procedures.
What did the 13th Amendment say?
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What did the 14th Amendment say?
Defined what it means to be a US citizen. Stops states from reducing the privileges of citizens and ensures each citizen the ‘right to due process and the equal protection of the law’.
What did the 15th Amendment say?
Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or color or whether they had been slaves.
What did the 16th Amendment say?
Gave the federal government the power to collect income tax.
What did the 17th Amendment say?
Senators would be directly elected by the people.
What did the 18th Amendment say?
Alcoholic drinks illegal. (Later repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment)
What did the 19th Amendment say?
Gave women the right to vote. It’s also called women’s suffrage.
What did the 20th Amendment say?
Terms of office for Congress and the President.
What did the 21st Amendment say?
Repealed (got rid of) the Eighteenth Amendment.
What did the 22nd Amendment say?
Limited the president to a maximum of two terms or 10 years.
What did the 23rd Amendment say?
Gave Washington, DC representatives in the Electoral College.
What did the 24th Amendment say?
People don’t have to pay a poll tax in order to vote.
What did the 25th Amendment say?
Defined the presidential succession if something should happen to the president. The first in line is the Vice-President.
What did the 26th Amendment say?
Set the national voting age at 18.
What did the 27th Amendment say?
Congressional salary changes cannot take effect until the beginning of the next session of Congress.
What did Marbury v Madison say?
Federal courts can declare legislative and executive actions unconstitutional. Known as judicial review.
What did McCulloch v Maryland say?
The Constitution gives the federal government certain powers.
What did Gibbons v Ogden say?
When a federal and state law are in conflict, federal law is supreme
What did Dred Scott v Sanford say?
Dred Scott, a slave, had moved with his master to Illinois, a free state. He moved again to a slave state, Missouri, and filed suit to gain freedom, under that state’s law of “Once free, always free.” The decision said that Scott had never been free at all, and cited Constitutional grounds for placing the slavery decision in the hands of the states. Later overturned by 13th Amendment.
What did Plessy v Ferguson say?
The Court ruled that the race-based “Jim Crow” laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the states gave separate but equal treatment. Overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.
What did Brown v Board of Education say?
Separate treatment based on race is unequal.
What did Mapp v Ohio say?
Illegally found material can’t be used in a criminal trial.
What did Engle v Vitale say?
Public places (like school) can’t require prayer.
What did Gideon v Wainwright say?
“Indigent” (homeless) defendants must be given an attorney free of charge.
What did Miranda v Arizona say?
Police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning.
What did Tinker v Des Moines say?
Students wearing armbands to protest the Vietnam War were not in violation of school dress code.
What did US v Nixon say?
The President is not above the law.
What did Texas v Johnson say?
Even offensive speech such as flag burning is protected by 1st Amendment.
