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What did each amendment mean?

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MA_775_DIABLO [31]3 years ago

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1st Amendment: Guarantees the right to the freedoms of speech, press, and religion. Protects the right to petition the government.

2nd Amendment: Guarantees the people’s right to own and bear arms for their defense.

3rd Amendment: Citizens cannot be forced to quarter soldiers during times of peace.

4th Amendment: Citizens cannot be forced to subject themselves to seizure and search without a search warrant and probable cause.

5th Amendment: Prohibits abuse of governmental authority in legal procedures. Establishes rules for indictment by eminent domain and grand jury. Guarantees the due process rights. Protects citizens from self-incrimination and double jeopardy.

6th Amendment: Guarantees fair and speedy jury trial and the rights to know the accusation, the accuser, and to find counsel and witnesses.

7th Amendment: Reserves individuals’ rights to jury trial depending on the civil case, and cases already examined by not be re-opened by another court.

8th Amendment: Forbids exorbitant bails and fines and punishment that is unusual or cruel.

9th Amendment: Reserves the rights of citizens which are not specifically mentioned by the U.S. Constitution.

10th Amendment: Reserves powers that are not given to the U.S. government under the Constitution, nor prohibited to a State of the U.S., to the people and the States.

11th Amendment: State sovereign immunity. States are protected from suits by citizens living in another state or foreigners that do not reside within the state borders. Ratified: Feb. 7, 1795

12th Amendment: Modifies and clarifies the procedure for electing vice-presidents and presidents.

13th Amendment: Except as punishment for criminal offense, forbids forced-slavery and involuntary servitude.

14th Amendment: Details Equal Protection Clause, Due Process Clause, Citizenship Clause, and clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.

15th Amendment: Reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their race, color, or previous slave status.

16th Amendment: Reserves the U.S. government the right to tax income.

17th Amendment: Establishes popular voting as the process under which senators are elected.

18th Amendment: Denies the sale and consumption of alcohol.

19th Amendment: Reserves women’s suffrage rights.

20th Amendment: also known as the “lame duck amendment,” establishes date of term starts for Congress (January 3) & the President (January 20).

21st Amendment: Details the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. State laws over alcohol are to remain.

22nd Amendment: Limit the terms that an individual can be elected as president (at most two terms). Individuals who have served over two years of someone else’s term may not be elected more than once.

23rd Amendment: Reserves the right of citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for their own Electors for presidential elections.

24th Amendment: citizens cannot be denied the suffrage rights for not paying a poll tax or any other taxes.

25th Amendment: establishes the procedures for a successor of a President.

26th Amendment: Reserves the right for citizens 18 and older to vote.

27th Amendment: Denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.

marishachu [46]3 years ago

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The Constitution of the United States was written in 1787 by 55 delegates at a Constitutional Convention. Its purpose was to revise the weaker Articles of Confederation that had held the 13 states together after they gained independence from Britain.

Before it could be put into place, it had to be ratified by conventions from each of the 13 states, where the delegates argued both for and against the binding document. One of the main arguments against the ratification of the US Constitution was the lack of specified individual rights and liberties, so James Madison drafted a set of amendments to add to the US Constitution if it was ratified.

By June 1789, Madison submitted 12 amendments, though only 10 were passed and ratified in 1791 as the Bill of Rights.

Since then, 17 more amendments have been passed and ratified by the process laid out in Article 5 of the US Constitution, where an amendment is proposed by either a two-thirds vote in Congress or a national convention of two-thirds of the states.

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