what are all the amendments to the constitution?
All Amendments to the U.s. Constitution
Amendments i-ten | Amendments 11-27
Congress of the United States
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THE Conventions of a number of u.s.a., having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to forestall misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that farther declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And every bit extending the ground of public confidence in the Regime, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Usa of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, equally amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as function of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the U.s., proposed past Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Commodity of the original Constitution.
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first x amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the "Neb of Rights."
Subpoena I
Congress shall make no police force respecting an institution of faith, or prohibiting the free practise thereof; or abridging the freedom of oral communication, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to get together, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
AMENDMENT 2
A well regulated Militia, beingness necessary to the security of a free Land, the correct of the people to go along and carry Arms, shall not be infringed.
AMENDMENT Three
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of state of war, just in a fashion to be prescribed past law.
AMENDMENT Iv
The correct of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and furnishings, confronting unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the identify to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
AMENDMENT Five
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Chiliad Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in bodily service in time of War or public danger; nor shall whatsoever person be subject area for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of police; nor shall private holding be taken for public use, without just compensation.
AMENDMENT VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall savor the correct to a speedy and public trial, past an impartial jury of the Country and district wherein the criminal offense shall take been committed, which commune shall take been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and crusade of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Help of Counsel for his defence force.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed xx dollars, the right of trial past jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in whatsoever Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common police force.
AMENDMENT VIII
Excessive bond shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor barbarous and unusual punishments inflicted.
Subpoena Ix
The enumeration in the Constitution, of sure rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained past the people.
Amendment X
The powers non delegated to the United States past the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to united states respectively, or to the people.
AMENDMENT Eleven - Passed by Congress March 4, 1794. Ratified February 7, 1795.
Notation: Article III, section two, of the Constitution was modified by subpoena eleven.
The Judicial power of the United states of america shall not exist construed to extend to whatsoever accommodate in police or equity, commenced or prosecuted against ane of the United states by Citizens of another State, or past Citizens or Subjects of any Strange State.
AMENDMENT XII - Passed by Congress December 9, 1803. Ratified June 15, 1804.
Notation: A portion of Article Ii, department i of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment.
The Electors shall see in their respective states and vote past ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the aforementioned state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for every bit Vice-President, and they shall make singled-out lists of all persons voted for every bit President, and of all persons voted for equally Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; -- the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open up all the certificates and the votes shall then exist counted; -- The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a bulk of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding iii on the list of those voted for as President, the Business firm of Representatives shall choose immediately, past election, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each land having ane vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of united states of america, and a majority of all u.s. shall be necessary to a choice. [And if the House of Representatives shall not cull a President whenever the right of option shall devolve upon them, before the quaternary day of March next post-obit, then the Vice-President shall human action as President, as in instance of the decease or other constitutional inability of the President. --]* The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person take a majority, and then from the two highest numbers on the listing, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of 2-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall exist necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the U.s.a..
*Superseded past section iii of the 20th amendment.
AMENDMENT XIII - Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Annotation: A portion of Article IV, section ii, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except equally a punishment for offense whereof the party shall have been duly bedevilled, shall exist within the United States, or whatsoever place subject to their jurisdiction.
Department 2.
Congress shall take ability to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
AMENDMENT XIV - Passed past Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Annotation: Article I, section two, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th subpoena.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall brand or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or belongings, without due process of police; nor deny to whatsoever person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Department 2.
Representatives shall exist apportioned among the several States according to their corresponding numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each Country, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the Us, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, existence xx-one years of age,* and citizens of the United states, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other offense, the ground of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male person citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 20-one years of age in such State.
Department 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or nether whatsoever State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the U.s.a., or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any Land, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the aforementioned, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of 2-thirds of each House, remove such inability.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the Usa, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing coup or rebellion, shall not be questioned. Merely neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay whatever debt or obligation incurred in assistance of insurrection or rebellion against the The states, or whatever claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; only all such debts, obligations and claims shall exist held illegal and void.
Department v.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this commodity.
*Changed by section 1 of the 26th subpoena.
Subpoena 15 - Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February 3, 1870.
Section 1.
The correct of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the The states or by any State on business relationship of race, color, or previous status of servitude--
Section 2.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article past appropriate legislation.
Subpoena 16 - Passed past Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified past amendment sixteen.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatsoever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Amendment XVII - Passed past Congress May thirteen, 1912. Ratified April 8, 1913.
Note: Commodity I, department iii, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment.
The Senate of the The states shall be equanimous of ii Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for half-dozen years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the almost numerous branch of the Country legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of whatsoever State in the Senate, the executive authority of such Land shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people make full the vacancies by ballot as the legislature may directly.
This amendment shall non be so construed as to touch the election or term of any Senator chosen before information technology becomes valid as function of the Constitution.
AMENDMENT Eighteen - Passed past Congress December 18, 1917. Ratified January 16, 1919. Repealed by amendment 21.
Section 1.
After 1 year from the ratification of this article the industry, sale, or transportation of exhilarant liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United states of america and all territory field of study to the jurisdiction thereof for drinkable purposes is hereby prohibited.
Department 2.
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by advisable legislation.
Section iii.
This article shall exist inoperative unless it shall have been ratified every bit an subpoena to the Constitution past the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the engagement of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
AMENDMENT 19 - Passed by Congress June four, 1919. Ratified August 18, 1920.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the The states or by any Land on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this commodity by appropriate legislation.
Amendment Twenty - Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified Jan 23, 1933.
Note: Article I, section iv, of the Constitution was modified past department 2 of this amendment. In improver, a portion of the 12th amendment was superseded by section 3.
Section 1.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall stop at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have concluded if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall so begin.
Department 2.
The Congress shall assemble at least in one case in every year, and such coming together shall brainstorm at noon on the 3d mean solar day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Section 3.
If, at the time fixed for the start of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall go President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the fourth dimension fixed for the start of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, and so the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall take qualified; and the Congress may by police provide for the instance wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to deed shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Department 4.
The Congress may by law provide for the instance of the death of any of the persons from whom the Firm of Representatives may choose a President whenever the correct of selection shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the expiry of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of pick shall accept devolved upon them.
Section five.
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th twenty-four hours of October post-obit the ratification of this commodity.
Section 6.
This commodity shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified every bit an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of 3-fourths of the several States within seven years from the appointment of its submission.
Amendment XXI - Passed by Congress February xx, 1933. Ratified December 5, 1933.
Department 1.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Department 2.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or Possession of the U.s. for delivery or use therein of exhilarant liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Department 3.
This commodity shall be inoperative unless it shall take been ratified as an subpoena to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, inside seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
AMENDMENT XXII - Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951.
Department ane.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the part of President, or acted equally President, for more than than two years of a term to which another person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than than once. Simply this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Commodity was proposed by Congress, and shall not foreclose any person who may be holding the function of President, or acting as President, during the term inside which this Article becomes operative from holding the role of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2.
This article shall be inoperative unless information technology shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of iii-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
AMENDMENT XXIII - Passed by Congress June xvi, 1960. Ratified March 29, 1961.
Department 1.
The District constituting the seat of Regime of the Us shall appoint in such way as Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a Land, but in no consequence more than than the least populous State; they shall exist in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the ballot of President and Vice President, to exist electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided past the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2.
The Congress shall accept power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Subpoena XXIV - Passed past Congress Baronial 27, 1962. Ratified January 23, 1964.
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the The states to vote in any chief or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not exist denied or abridged by the United states or any Country by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other taxation.
Department 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this commodity by advisable legislation.
AMENDMENT XXV - Passed by Congress July 6, 1965. Ratified Feb ten, 1967.
Note: Commodity II, section 1, of the Constitution was affected by the 25th amendment.
Section 1.
In example of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Department 3.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written proclamation that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the opposite, such powers and duties shall exist discharged past the Vice President every bit Acting President.
Section four.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other torso as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written proclamation that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his function, the Vice President shall immediately presume the powers and duties of the office as Interim President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a bulk of either the main officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written annunciation that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his function. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written announcement, or, if Congress is not in session, inside twenty-one days afterward Congress is required to gather, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his role, the Vice President shall keep to discharge the same as Interim President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his role.
Amendment XXVI - Passed by Congress March 23, 1971. Ratified July one, 1971.
Note: Subpoena 14, department two, of the Constitution was modified by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
Department 1.
The right of citizens of the The states, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the Usa or by any Land on account of age.
Section two.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Amendment XXVII - Originally proposed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May seven, 1992.
No law, varying the bounty for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
Source: http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm
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