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AMENDMENTS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. | 26th |
| Protects a citizen’s right to keep and bear arms. | 2nd |
| Protects against unlawful searches and seizures. | 4th |
| Prevents the quartering of troops in private homes. | 3rd |
| Ensured that no tax could be charged to vote for any federal office. | 24th |
| Protects citizens from cruel and unusual punishment and excessive fines. | 8th |
| Protects the unenumerated rights of citizens not specifically stated in the Constitution. | 9th |
| Protects the rights of the accused including a public and speedy trial by a jury of one’s peers. | 6th. |
| Changed the choosing of senators from the state legislatures to the people of the states. | 17th |
| Protects a citizen’s right to the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. | 1st |
| Authorizes the United States to collect income tax without regard to the population of the states. | 16th |
| Sets the limit on a presidential term of office to 2-four-year terms or 10 years maximum. | 22nd |
| Outlawed the making, selling, transporting, importing, or exporting of alcohol in the United States. | 18th |
| Abolishes slavery and forbids the practice of slavery in the United States and any area under its control. | 13th |
| Ensures that gender cannot be used as a criteria for voting, thus granting women the right to vote. | 19th |
| Redefines how the President and Vice-President are chosen by the Electoral College, making the two positions cooperative, rather than first and second highest vote-getters. | 12th |
| Requires that any law that increased the pay of legislators may not take effect until after an election. | 27th |
| Reserves all those powers not specifically given to the national government to the state governments. | 10th |
| Grants the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) the right to three electors in Presidential elections. | 23rd |
| Ensures the right to a trial by jury in any civil case in a federal court if the amount of money involved exceeds $20. | 7th |
| Forbids the state from denying anyone the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”. | 15th |
| States are immune from being sued in federal court by other states, foreign countries, or citizens from that state. | 11th |
| Repealed the 18th Amendment and allowed each state the power to regulate the making, selling, transporting, importing, or exporting of alcohol. | 21st |
| Set new start dates for the terms of the Congress and the President, and clarifies how the deaths of Presidents before swearing-in would be handled. | 20th |
| Clarifies even further the line of succession to the Presidency, and establishes rules for a President who becomes unable to perform his duties while in office. | 25th |
| Protects citizens in criminal proceedings including the restriction of self-incrimination and double jeopardy; also ensures the due process of law and eminent domain. | 5th |
| All persons born or naturalized in the United States are in fact citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside; ensured that all citizens of all states enjoyed not only rights on the federal level, but on the state level, too. | 14th |
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