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amndments
Term | Definition |
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1st | The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which respect. |
2nd | The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights. |
3rd | The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. |
4th | The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, |
5th | The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution addresses criminal procedure and other aspects of the Constitution. |
6th | In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district |
7th | The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. |
8th | The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal. |
9th | The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically. |
10th | The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. |
11th | The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed by Congress on March 4, 1794. |
12th | The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. |
13th | Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. |
14th | The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstructioon Amendments. |
15th | The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
16th | The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. |
18th | After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject |
21st | The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. |