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Amendments easy
Easy way to Remember Amendments
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom RAPPS |
| 2 | right "2" bare arms- you have 2 arms |
| 3 | 3's a crowd (it would be crowded if soldiers were allowed in your home) |
| 4 | We searched for a homework pass (no unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 5 | I plead the 5th |
| 6 | Speedy six (fair and speedy trial) |
| 7 | there are 27 amendments and amendment 7 deals with $20 |
| 8 | we'd hate no 8 think of when you go to jail..you have to put handcuffs on and your hands balled up looks like a "8" and a "B" (Jail-Bail) |
| 9 | number 9 makes more rights mine |
| 10 | federal government power is only what is writTEN down in the constitution |
| 11 | we don't have to learn this amendment |
| 12 | deals with the 1, 2 position in government (corrects voting problem of president and VP) |
| 13 | you were unlucky if you were a slave |
| 14 | eliminates the 3/5ths compromise and 4 is in between 3 & 5, deals with citizenship issues |
| 15 | 15 wrote that blacks can vote |
| allows income tax- the i in six represents income the x in six represents the word tax | |
| 17 | Seventeen-Senators both "SE"- allows votters rather than state legislators to vote for the senators |
| 18 | if you are 18 you can't drink alcohol(prohibition) |
| 19 | took place in 1920, women get the right to vote |
| 20 | moved the inauguration date to Jan. 20 |
| 21 | you can drink if you are 21 |
| 22 | 2/2 limits the president ot 2 terms |
| 23 | gives 3 to Washington D.C. (3 electoral votes to Washington D.C. |
| 24 | no poll tax at the door |
| 25 | 25 is if he is alive(deals with presidential disability) |
| 26 | 2+6 is 8 and eighteeen year olds can vote |
| 27 | no way to remember |