Bill of Rights
First: Freedom of Speech
Second: Right to Bear Arms
Third: Illegal to house soldiers in civilian homes without consent of owner
Fourth: search and arrest warrants (probable cause must be present)
Fifth: right to remain silent/not to incriminate yourself in legal proceedings
Sixth: right to a fair and speedy trial
Seventh: right to a trial by jury
Eighth: forbidding excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
Ninth: Protection of rights not specifically spelled out within the Bill of Rights
Tenth: powers retained by the states and the people.
Since then . . . . . . . .(Year ratified in parentheses)
Eleventh: (1795) lawsuits against states must be filed by residents of said state.
Twelfth: (1804) describes election process of president and vice president.
Thirteenth: (1865) abolition of slavery.
Fourteenth: (1868) all persons born in the United States are US citizens.
Fifteenth: (1870) universal *male* suffrage.
Sixteenth: (1913) Congress has the power to levy income taxes.
Seventeenth: (1913) direct election of senators, length of terms.
Eighteenth: (1919) creation of Prohibition.
Nineteenth: (1920) women's right to vote.
Twentieth: (1933) defined the length of terms for the President and Congress (This was *not* the same as term limits! See 22nd amendment for comparison).
Twenty-first: (1933) reverses eighteenth amendment.
Twenty-second: (1951) limitation of president to two terms.
Twenty-third: (1961) suffrage in the District of Columbia.
Twenty-fourth: (1964) poll taxes illegal.
Twenty-fifth: (1967) Presidential disability and secession.
Twenty-sixth: (1971) suffrage for 18 year olds.
Twenty-seventh: (1992) Congressional salaries.