Amendments

1st Amendment

• Five Parts
• 1) Religion
• 2) Assembly
• 3) Petition
• 4) Press
• 5) Speech
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2nd Amendment

• Right to keep and bear arms (guns)
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3rd Amendment

• No quartering of soldiers
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4th Amendment

• Protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government
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5th Amendment

• Right to grand jury indictment, no double jeopardy, freedom from self-incrimination, due process of law
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6th Amendment

• Right to be informed of charges be present when witnesses speak in court, to call defense witnesses, to have a lawyer.
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8th Amendment

• Freedom from excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
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13th Amendment

• Abolition of slavery Outlawed
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14 Amendment

• Right to be free from discrimination in states to have due process of law, to have equal protection of the law
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15 Amendment

• Black Suffrage
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18th Amendment

• Prohibition of alcoholic beverages
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19th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage
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20th Amendment

• Lame-Duck Period shortened for federal Officials
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21st Amendment

• Repeal to Prohibition (they can drink again)
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22 Amendment

• Limitation of Presidential term of office
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23rd Amendment

• Voters in Washington D.C. given the right to vote for presidential electors
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24th Amendment

• Abolition of poll taxes
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26th Amendment

• 18 year olds given the right to vote
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