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Constitution Amendments
Titles of the Amendments
27
History
12th Grade
01/15/2011

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Term
2nd Amendment
Definition
Right to Bear Arms (with exemptions of a few guns)
Term
1st Amendment
Definition
Religious and Political Freedom.
Freedoms:Speech, Press, Religion, Petition, and Assembly.
Term
3rd Amendment
Definition
Quartering troops
Term
4th amendment
Definition
Search and Seizure
Term
5th amendment
Definition
Rights of Accused Persons (you can plead this amendment)
Term
6th Amendment
Definition
Right to a Public Trial
Term
7th Amendment
Definition
Jury trials in Civic Cases
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8th amendment
Definition
Criminal Punishment (cannot have cruel and unusual punishments)
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9th Amendment
Definition
Rights of People
Term
10th amendment
Definition
Powers of States and People (the stats rights)
Term
11th Amendment
Definition
Lawsuits against states
Term
12th amendment
Definition
Election of the President and Vice President (electoral college changes)
Term
13th amendment
Definition
Abolition of Slavery
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14th Amendment
Definition
Citizenship& civil rights
Term
15th Amendment
Definition
Right to vote (gave blacks the right to vote)
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16th Amendment
Definition
Income Tax
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17th Amendment
Definition
Direct Election of Senators
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18th Amendment
Definition
Prohibition of Alcohol
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19th Amendment
Definition
Woman's suffrage (women voting)
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20th Amendment
Definition
Terms, Congressional Sessions, & Presidential Succession
(also named the lame duck amendment)
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21st Amendment
Definition
Repeal of the Prohibition of alcohol
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22nd Amendment
Definition
Limits on Presidential Terms
(to two terms)
Term
23rd Amendment
Definition
Voting in District of Colombia
(3 electoral votes to D.C.)
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24th Amendment
Definition
Abolition of Poll Taxes
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25th Amendment
Definition
Presidential Succession, disability, and the vice president
(succession of presidency, vice pres. could question)
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26th Amendment
Definition
18 year old right to vote
(because of the Vietnam War)
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27th Amendment
Definition
Congressional Pay (congress must go through election before raise)
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