Amendments+11-27

=Amendments 11 through 27=

Summary
The Bill of Rights contains seventeen very important amendments.

__//**What are the Amendments 11- 27?**//__ __**Amendment eleven**__ **"Suits against a state"** passed in (1795)- The constitution states that - "The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State". __**Amendment twelve**__ is **"Election of Executives"** (1804)- provides the procedure for the elections of the President and Vice president __**Amendment thirteen**__ is "Slavery Abolished" (1865)- Section one- "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereofo the party shall have been dully convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". Section two- "Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation" __**Amendment fourteen**__ is **"Civil Rights"** (1868)- [] 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. __**Amendment eighteen**__ is **"Prohibition"** (1919) - prohibition of alcohol __**Amendment 21**__ is **"Repeal of Prohibition"** (1933) - 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the 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 State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation __**Amendment 25**__ is **"Presidential Disability, Succession"** (1967) - Section one- "In case of the removal of the president from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice- President shall become President" to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provi"ded in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
 * __Amendment fifteen__** is **"Right to Vote"** (1870) -
 * __Amendment sixteen__** is **"Income Tax"** (1913) - "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration"
 * __Amendment seventeen__** is**"Direct Election of Senators"** (1913) - []
 * __Amendment 19__** is **"Woman Suffrage"** (1920): **Clause one** - "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex". **Clause two**- "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by apporpriate legislation".
 * __Amendment 20__** is **"Lame Duck" (**1933) - terms of president and vice president end at noon of the 20th day of January, Senators terms end 3rd day of january
 * Section 1. "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed".
 * Section 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".
 * Section 3. "This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment"
 * __Amendment 22__** is **"Limit on presidential terms" (**1951) - "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once".
 * __Amendment 23__** is **"Voting in district of Columbia"** (1961) -
 * __Amendment 24__** is **"Abolition of poll taxes"** (1964) - "The right of citzens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice- President..."
 * __Amendment 26__** is **"18 year- old vote"** (1971) - //Section 1.// "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age". //Section 2.// "The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation".
 * __Amendment 27__** is **"Congressional pay"** (1992) - "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened"

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