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27 Amendments

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Protects against “unreasonable search and seizure”

Fourth Amendment

Powers not granted to the national government are reserved for the people

Tenth Amendment

Assures the right to a jury trial in cases involving common law

Seventh Amendment

Guarantees freedoms of religious speech, assembly, and press and the right of people to petition the government

First Amendment

Restricts quartering of troops in private homes

Third Amendment

Protects against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment

Eighth Amendment

Protects the rights of states to maintain a militia and of citizens to bear arms

Second Amendment

Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury

Sixth Amendment

Assures the right not to be deprived of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”, including protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination

Fifth Amendment

Provides that people’s rights are not restricted to those specified in Amendments 1-8

Ninth Amendment

Rights of All Citizens

Fourteenth Amendment

Prohibits the manufacture, sale or transport of alcohol

Eighteenth Amendment

“Lame Duck” Amendment

Twentieth Amendment

Congress has the power to levy individual income taxes

Sixteenth Amendment

Women Suffrage

Nineteenth Amendment

Prohibits a state from being sued in federal court by citizens of another state or of another nation

Eleventh Amendment

Prohibits Slavery

Thirteenth Amendment

Prohibits the government from denying a person’s right to vote based on race

Fifteenth Amendment

Election of President and Vice President

Twelfth Amendment

Direct Election of Senators

Seventeenth Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition Amendment

Twenty-first Amendment

Restraint on Congressional Salaries

Twenty-seventh Amendment

Presidential Disability and Succession

Twenty-fifth Amendment

Abolition of Poll Tax

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Voting Age to 18 years old

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Presidential Electors of the District of Columbia

Twenty-third Amendment

Limit on terms a president can hold

Twenty-Second Amendment