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| x First Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution | Jun 8, 1789 | James Madison |
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion", prohibiting the free exercise of religion, infringing on the...
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| x Second Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill...
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| x Third Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment III) is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It was introduced on September 5, 1789, and then three-fourths of the states ratified this as well as 9 others on December 15, 1791....
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| x Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. It was ratified as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search...
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| x Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted...
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| x Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
Amendment IX (the Ninth Amendment) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
When the U.S. Constitution was sent to the states for...
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| x Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments. The...
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| x Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Seventh Amendment (Amendment VII) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil trials. Unlike most of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court has not incorporated the...
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| x Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions in federal courts. The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the...
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| x Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution | Jun 8, 1789 | James Madison |
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, protects against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure. Its guarantees stem from English common law which traces back to the Magna Carta in 1215...
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| x Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution, along with the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, was adopted after the Civil War as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It was adopted on July 9, 1868.
The amendment...
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| x Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
On January 9,...
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| x Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on December 6, 1865, and was then declared in a...
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| x Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. This amendment overruled Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co...
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| x Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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Amendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S.), established Prohibition in...
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| x Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected. It replaced the procedure of the Electoral College under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, which...
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| x Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery...
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| x Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential...
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| x Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon...
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| x Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution permits the District of Columbia to choose Electors for President and Vice President. The amendment was proposed by Congress on June 17, 1960, and ratified by the states...
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| x Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the beginning of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent...
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| x Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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United States Constitution |
The Eleventh Amendment (Amendment XI) to the United States Constitution, which was passed by the Congress on March 4, 1794 and was ratified on February 7, 1795, deals with each state's sovereign immunity from being sued in federal court by someone...
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| x Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide Prohibition.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution had ushered in a...
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| x Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution was passed by the Senate on June 12, 1911, the House of Representatives on May 13, 1912, and ratified by the states on April 8, 1913. The amendment supersedes Article I, §...
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| x United States Bill of Rights |
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In the United States, the Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known. They were introduced by James Madison to the First United States Congress in 1789 as a series of articles, and came...
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| x Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal officials. It also deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect. The Twentieth Amendment...
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| x Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States. The Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on...
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| x Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on...
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| x Reconstruction Amendments |
The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. This group of Amendments is sometimes...
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