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| Prohibits federal government from restricting religion, speech, assembly, petition, press |
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| Gives citizens right to bear arms |
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| Prohibits federal government from housing troops in private homes during peacetime |
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| Prohibits federal government from making unreasonable searches and seizures |
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| Prohibits double jeopardy, self-incrimination, seizing property without due process, and just compensation |
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| Citizens have right to speedy and public trial, be informed of charges against them, impartial jury, legal counsel |
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| Citizens have right to a jury trial |
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| Prohibits excessive bail or fines and cruel or unusual punishment |
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| Rights not enumerated in Constitution remain in people’s hands |
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| Powers not delegated to federal government are reserved to the state or people |
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| courts have no authority in suits by citizens against another state or foreign states |
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| Provides for separate electoral voting for president and vice president |
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| Abolished slavery in the United States |
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| Blacks given citizenship; all citizens guaranteed due process of law and equal protection of the law; federal government would protect rights if states failed to do so |
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| Black men given the right to vote |
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| Federal government allowed to tax incomes |
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| Direct popular election of United States senators |
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| Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages |
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| Repealed Eighteenth Amendment |
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| Women given the right to vote |
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| Congress begins new term on January 3; president and vice president begin terms on January 20 of year following their election |
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| Limited the president to two terms or ten years in office |
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| District of Columbia given three electoral votes in presidential elections |
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| Abolished poll taxes in the voting process |
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| When the president dies or is disabled, vice president becomes president and new vice president is appointed; established procedures in case of presidential disability |
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| All citizens eighteen years of age and older given right to vote |
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| Congress prohibited from changing its pay for the current congressional term |
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