Constitutional Amendment
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Suggestions for changes of a constitution that may or may not have passed the necessary ratification procedures. The process required for changing a constitution is often different from the process required to change ordinary law.
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| First Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" (the Establishment Clause) or that...
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| Second Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the pre-existing individual right to possess and carry weapons (i.e. "keep and bear arms") in case of confrontation....
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| Third Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment III) is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It was introduced by James Madison on September 5, 1789, and then three-fourths of the states ratified this as well as 9 others on...
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| Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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'''The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is one of the provisions included in the Bill of Rights. The Fourth Amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, and was designed as a response to the...
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| Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.
The Tenth Amendment is similar to an earlier provision of the Articles of Confederation: "Each state...
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| Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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Amendment IX (the Ninth Amendment) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
When the U.S. Constitution was sent to the states...
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| Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is part of the United States Bill of Rights which took effect in 1791. The amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel...
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| Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Seventh Amendment (Amendment VII) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, codifies the right to jury trial in certain civil trials. Unlike most of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court has not incorporated the...
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| Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions in federal courts. The Supreme Court has ruled that the principal rights guaranteed by this amendment are so fundamental and important that they...
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| Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, is related to legal procedure. Its guarantees stem from English common law as established by Magna Carta in 1215. For instance, grand juries...
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| Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War amendments (also known as the Reconstruction Amendments), first intended to secure rights for former slaves. It includes the Due Process and...
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| Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each of the states and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex.
The Nineteenth Amendment was specifically...
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| Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery, and with limited exceptions, such as those convicted of a crime, prohibits involuntary servitude.
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| Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) of the United States Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1913. This Amendment overruled Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), which greatly limited the Congress's authority to levy an income...
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| Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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Amendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S.), established Prohibition in...
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| Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution requires electors to cast two distinct votes: one for President and another for Vice President. It replaced Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, which stated that each member of the...
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| Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) of the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States to prevent a citizen from voting based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude (i.e. slavery). It was...
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| Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution partially replaced the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which deals with succession to the Presidency, and establishes procedures...
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| Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) of the United States Constitution, ratified on July 1, 1971, standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in...
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| Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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Amendment XXIII was the twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution which permits the District of Columbia to choose Electors for President and Vice President. The amendment was proposed by Congress on June 17, 1960, and ratified by the...
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| Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution, having been ratified in 1992, 202½ years after its initial submission in 1789.
The Twenty seventh Amendment provides that any change in...
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