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Bill of Rights
Constitutional Amendments
Term | Definition |
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1st | Freedom of Speech |
2nd | Right to bear arms |
3rd | You don’t have to let soldiers live in your house, except if there is a war, and even then Congress needs to pass a law and set the rules. |
4th | Nobody can search your body, or your house, or your papers and things, unless they can prove to a judge that they have a good reason for the search. |
5th | The government can’t take your house or your farm or anything that is yours, unless the government pays for it at a fair price. |
6th | You have a right to have your trial soon and in public, The case has to be decided by a jury of ordinary people You have the right to know what you are accused of doing wrong |
7th | You also have the right to a jury when it is a civil case (a law case between two people rather than between you and the government) |
8th | The government can’t make you pay more than is reasonable in bail or in fines, and the government can’t inflict cruel or unusual punishments (like torture) even if you are convicted of a crime. |
9th | Just because these rights are listed in the Constitution doesn’t mean that you don’t have other rights too. |
10th | Anything that the Constitution doesn’t say that Congress can do, is left up to the states and to the people. |
11th | Individual cannot sue a state in a federal court |
12th | separate ballots for president and vice president |
13th | Abolish Slavery |
14th | If you are born or naturalized in the US then you are a citizen of the US |
15th | You cannot present a person from voting because of race, color or creed |
16th | Income tax |
17th | popular election of US senators |
18th | prohibition |
19th | women get the right to vote |
20th | president takes office on Jan. 20th instead of March 4th |
21st | repeal prohibition |
22nd | president can only serve 2 terms |
23rd | Washington D.C. residents can vote for president |
24th | Anti poll tax |
25th | how president turns duties over to VP due to illness |
26th | 18 years old get to vote |
27th | congress cannot accept a pay raise until next term |