Amendments and Rights

1st

-Speech/Expression
-Press
-Religion: Exercise and Establishment
Assembly
Petition the government for a redress of grievances

2nd

Right to bear arms

3rd

No quartering of soldiers

4th

No unreasonable search and seizure

5th

-Due process: federal
-Right against self-incrimination
-Grand juries indict
-Eminent domain (right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation)
-No double jeopardy

6th

-Right to an attorney
-Right to a trial by an impartial jury or judge
-Right to confront witnesses
-Right to be informed of criminal charges
-Right to compel witnesses to appear in court

7th

Right to a trial by jury in civil matters over $20

8th

-No excessive bail or fines
-No cruel and unusual punishment

9th

Unenumerated rights( if, in the Constitution, it does not state or deny a right, it belongs to the people)

10th

Reserved (to the states) powers

11th

Provides states with immunity from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders (sovereign immunity)

12th

Vote for President and Vice-President; Electoral College

13th

Abolished Slavery

14th

-Citizenship for former slaves
-Equal protection of the laws
-Due process: states

15th

Suffrage/Franchise for former slaves

16th

Federal income tax

17th

Election of Senators by the people

18th

Prohibition

19th

Suffrage/Franchise for women

20th

-Congress convenes on January 3
-President takes office/inaguration on January 20

21st

Repealed prohibition

22nd

President can serve only two terms (eight years) or ten years

23rd

Three Electors for District of Columbia

24th

Eliminated poll tax

25th

-Presidental succession
-Filling of Office of Vice-President
-Presidential disability

26th

Suffrage/Franchise for eighteen-year-olds

27th

Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives