Constitutional Amendments 11-27: The Bill Of Rights
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
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
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of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment.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
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
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
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 XVIPassed 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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