Amendments to the US Constitution
AMENDMENT 1 | FREEDOM OF RELIGION, PRESS, EXPRESSION
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 2 | RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 3 | QUARTERING OF SOLDIERS
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 4 | SEARCH AND SEIZURE
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 5 | TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT, COMPENSATION FOR TAKINGS
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 6 | RIGHT TO SPEEDY TRIAL, CONFRONTATION OF WITNESSES
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 7 | TRIAL BY JURY IN CIVIL CASES
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 8 | CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 9 | CONSTRUCTION OF CONSTITUTION
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 10 | POWERS OF THE STATES AND PEOPLE
- December 15, 1791
AMENDMENT 11 | JUDICIAL LIMITS
- February 7, 1795
AMENDMENT 12 | CHOOSING THE PRESIDENT, VICE-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 have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
- June 15, 1804
AMENDMENT 13 | SLAVERY ABOLISHED
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- December 6, 1865
AMENDMENT 14 | CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, 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 United States, 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, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
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 under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
- July 9, 1868
AMENDMENT 15 | RACE NO BAR TO VOTE
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- February 3, 1870
AMENDMENT 16 | STATUS OF INCOME TAX CLARIFIED
- February 3, 1913
AMENDMENT 17 | SENATORS ELECTED BY POPULAR VOTE
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State 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 fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
- April 8, 1913
AMENDMENT 18 | LIQUOR ABOLISHED
2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
- August 18, 1920
AMENDMENT 19 | WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- January 23, 1933
AMENDMENT 20 | PRESIDENTIAL, CONGRESSIONAL TERMS
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
- January 23, 1933
AMENDMENT 21 | AMENDMENT 18 REPEALED
2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
3. The article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
- December 5, 1933
AMENDMENT 22 | PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS
2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
- February 27, 1951
AMENDMENT 23 | PRESIDENTIAL VOTE FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- March 29, 1961
AMENDMENT 24 | POLL TAX BARRED
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- January 23, 1964
AMENDMENT 25 | PRESIDENTIAL DISABILITY AND SUCCESSION
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.
3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body 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 declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting 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 majority of either the principal 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 declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. 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 declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
- February 10, 1967
AMENDMENT 26 | VOTING AGE SET TO 18 YEARS
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- July 1, 1971
AMENDMENT 27 | LIMITING CONGRESSIONAL PAY INCREASES
- May 7, 1992
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