AMENDMENT PROJECT

AMENDMENT 1

• The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.
• It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.
• It guarantees freedom of expression.
• It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.

AMENDMENT 2

• The second amendment grants Americans the right to bear arms.
• Its rules the right to keep or bear arms belongs to americans.
• Although it does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar weapons.

AMENDMENT 3

• The Third Amendment places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.

AMENDMENT 4

• The police can not search someone's person (body), house, papers, or effects (other things) without having a good reason.
• They can not take any thing from someone without a good reason
• This amendment is the reason for police always asking permission to come in your home or to search your car.

AMENDMENT 5

• Nobody can be put on trial for a very serious crime, unless a group of people called a grand jury first decide that there is enough evidence to make a trial necessary.
• When there is enough evidence an indictment is issued, which means that the person charged with the crime will be put on trial for that crime.
• The government can not take away someone's life, freedom, or property without following a series of steps that give them a fair chance. This is called due process.
• The government can not take away someone's property without paying them for it in some way.
• If the state wanted to build a road right through someone's yard they can't just do it, they have to pay the person for it, or compensate them in some way.

AMENDMENT 6

• The accused has the right to a quick trial. This does not mean that their trial must be over in one week.
• This means that the state can not make them sit in jail while they wait to have a trial. That would be unfair to anyone who is innocent.
• The accused also has the right to a public trial.
• The accused has the right to know what they are being charged with and why they're being held in jail.

AMENDMENT 7

• United States law forbids anyone from setting up their own court system.
• If someone goes to court, they will always go to a recognized court of the government, be it a national, state, county, or city court.

AMENDMENT 8

• The courts can not assign the accused an excessive amount for bail.

AMENDMENT 9

• The rights in the constitution does not mean that there aren't other rights that the people have that are not listed.

AMENDMENT 10

• The governmental powers not listed in the Constitution for the national government are powers that the states, or the people of those states, can have.
• The national government does not control these areas because they are not mentioned in the Constitution, and so they are under the control of the states.

AMENDMENT 11

• This prohibits federal courts from hearing cases lodged against a state by a citizen of another state

AMENDMENT 12

• Requires that choices for president and vice president be designated as such
• Modifies and clarifies the procedure for electing vice-presidents and presidents.

AMENDMENT 13

• Abolished slavery
• Except as punishment for criminal offense, forbids forced-slavery and involuntary servitude.

AMENDMENT 14

• Defined citizenship
• Details Equal Protection Clause, Due Process Clause, Citizenship Clause, and clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.

AMENDMENT 15

• Right to vote can't be denied because of race
• Reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their race, color, or previous slave status.

AMENDMENT 16

• Federal income tax
• Reserves the U.S. government the right to tax income.

AMENDMENT 17

• Establishes popular voting as the process under which senators are elected.
• Senators be elected directly by people

AMENDMENT 18

• No sale of alcoholic beverages
• Denies the sale and consumption of alcohol.

AMENDMENT 19

• Reserves women’s suffrage rights
• Women right to vote

AMENDMENT 20

• President and vice president begin jan 20, congress begin jan 3
• Also known as the “lame duck amendment,” establishes date of term starts for Congress (January 3) & the President (January 20).

AMENDMENT 21

• Details the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. State laws over alcohol are to remain.

AMENDMENT 22

• Limit the terms that an individual can be elected as president (at most two terms).
• Individuals who have served over two years of someone else’s term may not be elected more than once.

AMENDMENT 23

• Reserves the right of citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for their own Electors for presidential elections.

AMENDMENT 24

• Citizens cannot be denied the suffrage rights for not paying a poll tax or any other taxes.

AMENDMENT 25

• Establishes the procedures for a successor of a President.

AMENDMENT 26

• Reserves the right for citizens 18 and older to vote

AMENDMENT 27

• Denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.