Amendments
Slides in this set (18)
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- Five Parts
- 1) Religion
- 2) Assembly
- 3) Petition
- 4) Press
- 5) Speech
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- Right to keep and bear arms (guns)
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- No quartering of soldiers
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- Protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government
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- Right to grand jury indictment, no double jeopardy, freedom from self-incrimination, due process of law
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- 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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- Freedom from excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
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- Abolition of slavery Outlawed
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- 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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- Black Suffrage
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- Prohibition of alcoholic beverages
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- Women's Suffrage
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- Lame-Duck Period shortened for federal Officials
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- Repeal to Prohibition (they can drink again)
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- Limitation of Presidential term of office
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- Voters in Washington D.C. given the right to vote for presidential electors
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- Abolition of poll taxes
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- 18 year olds given the right to vote
