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11-27 Amendments
Amendments
Amendment | Descritption |
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Lawsuits against the states | 11 |
Voteing for presidnet and VicePresident | 12 |
There is not allowed to be slavery | 13 |
protects the rights of citizenship in general by prohibiting a state from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without "due process of law" | 14 |
prohibits the government from denying a person's right to vote on the basis of race | 15 |
gives Congress the power to levy individual income taxes | 16 |
states that the people, instead of state legislatures, elect United States senators | 17 |
prohibits the manufacture, sale, or transportaion of alcoholic beverages, concluding a crusade to abolish the use of liquor that began in the 1830s | 18 |
guaranteed women the right to vote | 19 |
sets new dates for Congress to begin its term and for the inauguration of the president and vice president | 20 |
repeals the unsuccessful eighteenth amendment. continued to ban the transport of alcohol into any state where its possession violated state law | 21 |
limits presidents to a maximum of two elected terms | 22 |
allows citizens living in Washington, D.C., to vote for president and vice president, a right previously denied residents of the nation's capital | 23 |
prohibits poll taxes in federal elections | 24 |
establishes a process for the vice president to take over leadership of the nation when a president is disabled | 25 |
lowers the voting age in both federal and state elections to 18 | 26 |
makes congressional pay raises effective during the term following their passage | 27 |