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Limits the president to two terms in office.
Amendment XXII
Changes the procedure for presidential succession and addresses the filling of vice presidential vacancies.
Amendment XXV
Grants women the right to vote.
Amendment XIX
Establishes the two houses of Congress and their composition.
Amendment I
Prohibits the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages effectively establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
Amendment XVIII
Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers during peacetime.
Amendment III
Limits the powers of the federal government to those delegated to it by the Constitution.
Amendment X
Revises presidential election procedures by having the President and Vice President elected together as opposed to the runner-up becoming Vice President.
Amendment XII
Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of a poll tax or any other tax.
Amendment XXIV
Allows the residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
Amendment XXIII
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex—granting women's suffrage.
Amendment XIX
Gives Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on a census.
Amendment XVI
Lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
Amendment XXVI
Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign nationals from suing another state.
Amendment XI
Provides for the right to trial by jury in certain civil cases, according to common law.
Amendment VII
Prohibits excessive fines and excessive bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishment.
Amendment VIII
Asserts the existence of unenumerated rights retained by the people.
Amendment IX
Declares that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Amendment XV
Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
Amendment XVII
Protects the right to keep and bear arms.
Amendment II
Prohibition of alcohol, making production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
Amendment XVIII
Protects the right to a fair and speedy public trial by jury, including the rights to be notified of the accusations, to confront the accuser, to obtain witnesses and to retain counsel.
Amendment VI
Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Amendment XIII
Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures; sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause.
Amendment IV
Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
Amendment V
Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives.
Amendment XXVII
Abolishes poll taxes in federal elections.
Amendment XXIV
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause.
Amendment XIV
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