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Repealed prohibition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