Constitutional Amendments 11-27:
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Amendments 11-27
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The Constitution: Amendments 11-27
Constitutional Amendments 1-10 make up what is known
as
The
Bill of Rights. Amendments 11-27 are listed below.
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| AMENDMENT XI (11) |
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Passed by Congress March 4, 1794. Ratified February 7,
1795.
Note: Article III,
section 2, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 11.
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.
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| AMENDMENT XII (12) |
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Passed by Congress December 9, 1803. Ratified June 15,
1804.
Note: A portion of Article II,
section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th
amendment.
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and
vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least,
shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they
shall name in their ballots the person voted for as
President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as
Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted
for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and
of the number of votes for each, which lists they
shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the
government of the United States, directed to the President of the
Senate; -- the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the
Senate and House of Representatives, open all the
certificates and the votes shall then be counted; -- The person having
the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if
such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed;
and if no person have such majority, then
from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the
list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives
shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the
President, the votes shall be taken by
states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum
for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds
of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a
choice. [And if the House of
Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of
choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next
following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case
of the death or other constitutional disability
of the 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.
*Superseded by section 3 of the 20th amendment.
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| AMENDMENT XIII (13) |
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Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December
6, 1865.
Note: A portion of Article IV,
section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th
amendment.
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
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| AMENDMENT XIV (14) |
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Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9,
1868.
Note: Article I,
section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of
the 14th amendment.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
Section 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.
Section 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.
Section 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.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
*Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
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| AMENDMENT XV (15) |
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Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified
February 3, 1870.
Section 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--
Section 2.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
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| AMENDMENT XVI (16) |
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Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3,
1913.
Note: Article I,
section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
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.
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| AMENDMENT XVII (17) |
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Passed by Congress May 13, 1912. Ratified April 8,
1913.
Note: Article I,
section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th
amendment.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of
two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six
years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State
shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of
the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
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.
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| AMENDMENT XVIII (18) |
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Passed by Congress December 18, 1917. Ratified January
16, 1919. Repealed by amendment 21.
Section 1.
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture,
sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation
thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all
territory subject to the jurisdiction
thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2.
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to
enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 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.
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| AMENDMENT XIX (19) |
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Passed by Congress June 4, 1919. Ratified August 18,
1920.
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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
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| AMENDMENT XX
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Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23,
1933.
Note: Article I,
section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of
this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th
amendment was superseded by section 3.
Section 1.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on
the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives
at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms
would have ended if this article had not been
ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Section 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.
Section 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
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.
Section 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.
Section 5.
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following
the ratification of this article.
Section 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.
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| AMENDMENT XXI (21) |
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Passed by Congress February 20, 1933. Ratified
December 5, 1933.
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 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.
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| AMENDMENT XXII (22) |
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Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February
27, 1951.
Section 1.
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 President more than once. But this Article shall not
apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article
was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be
holding the office of President, or acting as
President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative
from holding the office of President or acting as President during the
remainder of such term.
Section 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.
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| AMENDMENT XXIII (23) |
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Passed by Congress June 16, 1960. Ratified March 29,
1961.
Section 1.
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States
shall appoint in such manner as 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.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
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| AMENDMENT XXIV (24) |
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Passed by Congress August 27, 1962. Ratified January
23, 1964.
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or
other election for President or Vice President, for electors for
President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in
Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
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| AMENDMENT XXV (25) |
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Passed by Congress July 6, 1965. Ratified February 10,
1967.
Note: Article II,
section 1, of the Constitution was affected by the 25th
amendment.
Section 1.
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or
resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 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.
Section 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.
Section 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.
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| AMENDMENT XXVI (26) |
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Passed by Congress March 23, 1971. Ratified July 1,
1971.
Note: Amendment 14, section 2, of
the Constitution was modified by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
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 power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
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| AMENDMENT XXVII (27) |
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Originally proposed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May 7,
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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