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| 1st amendment | freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition |
| 2nd amendment | right to bear arms-own guns |
| 3rd amendment | soldiers can not be quarter in homes of the citizens |
| 4th amendment | no one has the right to search your property without probable cause or a search warrant |
| 5th amendment | no person can be put on trial for a crime unless they are formally charged, cannot be tried for the same crime twice, the government cannot take your property unless they pay you the fair market price, you do not have to answer questions which will incriminate you in a crime |
| 6th amendment | this lists the rights of the accussed -right to a speedy trial, right to have a jury trial, the right to be tried in the state where crime is committed, right to know who has accused of the crime, the right to use subpoenas to help the accused prove their innocencehis ;he a |
| 7th amendment | the right to have a case heard in a civil court if you are trying to collect damages of more than $20 |
| 8th amendment | cannot hold a person with excessive bail, cannot fine someone beyond their means, no cruel or unusal punishments can be given to those found guilty |
| 9th amendment | the rights listed in the Constiution are only some of the rights which have written down. This does not mean you do not have other rights |
| 10th amendment | All powers not listed in the Coinstiution and given to the federal government can be considered state powers or powers that the people many retainrese |
| 11th amendment | can only sue a person in the state where the crime or damage took place |
| 12th amendment | have to cast a seperate ballot for the vice-president and the president |
| 13th amendment | gave slaves freedom |
| 14th amendment | made blacks citizens for the US.-all people both black and white cannot be deprived of due process. Must be considered free and equal in addition the debts of the Civil War would be paid only to the Northerners no confederate monies would be considered legal tender, no compensation would be given to slaves. nhend |
| 15th amendment | gave black men the right to vote |
| 16th amendment | gave Congress the power to impose a federal income tax on the people of the states |
| 17th amendment | allowed the people to elect Senators directly, if a vacancy occurred in the Senate the state may allow the govenor to fill the vacancy |
| 18th amendment | prohibited the sale, making, or transporation of alcohol |
| 19th amendment | women finally get the right to vote men finally come to their sensesa |
| 20th amendment | set term for the President, Vice President , Senators and Reps to begin in January, congress had to meet at least once per year vice-president elect will serve for president should he have died before being sworn in, limited the time it could take for an amendment to be ratified and that was seven years from date of submissione |
| 21st amendment | repealled the 18th amendment which prohibited the sale, transportation and idtribution of alcoholion of |
| 22nd amendment | limited the number of terms a president may serve. A president may serve for no more than 10 years total, two consecutive terms or eight years |
| 23rd amendment | allowed the District of Columbia or Washington, DC to have no more than three electors for the electoral college |
| 24th amendment | said that not paying taxes could not be a reason for withhoding the power to vote or tax dodgers can still vote |
| 25th amendment | provides for filling the offfice of the vice president should they resign or die gives guidelines to remove a president should he be judged mentally incompetent also gives president the ability to transfer his power should he let's say be under aneathesia |
| 26th amendment | 18 year olds were given the right to vote |
| 27th amendment | Congress must wait till after the House of Reps. elects its members to purt pay raises into effect |
