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| no law estabilish of religion, freedom of speech , expression, no law preventing people from meeting peacefully or from asking for help |
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| right to keep and bear the arms, many citizens served as volunteers in the state's militia |
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| no soldiers shall live in a person's house without the permission of the owner |
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| no court shall issue a warrant to serach a person or their property without good reason supported by oath or affirmation |
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| no one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; capital crime is the one for which death is the punishment; no one can be tried for a major crime unless they are charged by a grand jury; people can't be tried a second time for a crime for which they were already found innocent;PEOPLE CAN'T BE FORCED TO TESTIFY AGAINST THEMSELVES IN CURT, government can't take property without compensate |
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| the accused should have a prompt, open trial, thy shall have an unbiased jury from the state and district where the crime was perpretated, witnesses in the defense and the right to be represented by the lawer |
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| extended the right to jury trials to civil suits or cases involving individual rights or legal obligations |
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| bail and fines used as punishment must fit the crime |
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| the Constitution guarantee cartain rights but it's not exhaustive. If the right is not listed in Constitution, it does not mean ot does't exist |
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| all power not given to The US by the Constitution belongs to the states or to people |
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| limits judicoal branch, no suing against one of the United States, by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subject of any foreign country |
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| 12 electing president and vice |
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| electors vote for candidate, two ballots, the results go to President of the Senate, the Candidate having the most votes for President shall be the President if that person has more than half of all the eletoral vote, if no one has , the house takes no more that 3 to people, each state has only 1 vote, for vice to highest, the terms for election January 20 |
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| 1863 Lincoln's Emancipation Act |
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| 14 citizens, representatives, debts |
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| section 1all person born or naturalized become a citizen, all former slaves were citizens; section 2: representatives should be designated according to each state's population; section 3 if a state prevents people from voting in a US or state election, the number of that stae's representatives may be diminished according to the number of people it keeps from voting; section 3 no person shall hold a state of federal government office who once took an oath of office and then became a confederate unless Congress pardons the person by 2/3 vote of both houses, section4 the US will pay lawful debts (pensions and other money to Union soldiers for their service in The War Between The States). The US will not pay debts which the southern states made in fighting against US government. the individual states should not pay such debts either, section 5congress have power to pass laws abd will enforce this amendment |
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| no state may keep US citizens from voting because of their race, their color, or bacause they were once slaves, congress shall have the power to pass laws and enforce this amendment |
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| Congress may call for income taxes form all citizens without trying to get a cartain amount from each state |
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| The Senate should be composed of 2 Seantors from each State, elected by people for 6 years, each senator should have one vote; the requirements to vote for senators shall be the same as those to vote for a represenative, if a senator dis or resigns, the governor shall call for an election, and he can secelct a replecement until the people elect a new sentaor, the legislature shall determine how and when the election shall be held |
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| Prohibition act - removed |
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| no state may keep a citizen from voting because that citizen is a woman |
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| The president and vice terms shall end at noon, Jan 20. Senators' and Representatives' terms shall end at noon, January 3; congress shall meeet once a year, the meeting shall begin at noon, january 3; if the president dies or resigns the person electes as vice becomes president. Congress may determine who shall act as president if neither the President nor Vice takes office. |
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| Repeal of prohibition permitted. |
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| 22 lenghts of service of president |
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| no on ecan be elected President more than twice |
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| 23 Washingtion DC Residents' Right to vote in presidential elections |
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| the District shall appoint the number fof electors of President and Vice equal to number senators and represenattives the District would get if it were a state; the District may nt have more electors that the smallest state |
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| 24 Taxes and voting privilege |
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| US citizens don't loos ethe right to vote in federal election because they had not paid their taxes |
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| 25 Presidental Succession |
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| if the prsident is removed from the office, dies or resigns vice shall become president; if there is a vice president vacancy, the President shall make a nomination, if more than half of the Senate and House of representatives vote in favor, the nomination is approved |
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| voting age in national elections should be 18 |
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| 27 Ban on Mid-term Cogressional Pay raises |
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| requires proposed congressional pay increase to be considered at the start of congressional terms |
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