Amendments video

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The Bill of Rights

First Amendment: Protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
Second Amendment: Protects the right to keep and bear arms for personal safety, defense, and recreational use.
Third Amendment: Prevents the government from forcing citizens to house soldiers in their homes during peacetime without consent.
Fourth Amendment: Protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Fifth Amendment: Protects individuals in legal processes, including protection against self-incrimination, guarantees due process of law, prohibits double jeopardy, and ensures compensation for the taking of private property for public use.
Sixth Amendment: Ensures the right to a fair and speedy trial, the right to know the charges, confront accusers, obtain witnesses in defense, and have legal representation.
Seventh Amendment: Guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases involving disputes over property or money.
Eighth Amendment: Prohibits excessive bail and fines and cruel and unusual punishment.
Ninth Amendment: States that the enumeration of specific rights in the Constitution does not mean that people do not have other rights that are not listed.
Tenth Amendment: Clarifies that powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.

Constitutional Amendments After the Bill of Rights

Eleventh Amendment: Limits the ability of individuals to sue states in federal court.
Twelfth Amendment: Modifies the procedure for electing the president and vice-president.
Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.
Fourteenth Amendment: Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US, guarantees equal protection under the law, and extends civil liberties.
Fifteenth Amendment: Prohibits denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Sixteenth Amendment: Authorizes the federal government to collect income taxes without apportioning it among the states based on population.
Seventeenth Amendment: Establishes the direct election of US senators by the voters of the states.
Eighteenth Amendment: Initiates prohibition, making the manufacturer, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
Nineteenth Amendment: Extends the right to vote to women.
Twentieth Amendment: Changes the dates for the start of presidential, vice-presidential, and congressional terms and addresses presidential succession.
Twenty-first Amendment: Revokes the Eighteenth Amendment, ending prohibition.
Twenty-second Amendment: Limits the presidency to two terms.
Twenty-third Amendment: Grants residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.
Twenty-fourth Amendment: Prohibits poll taxes in federal elections.
Twenty-fifth Amendment: Clarifies presidential succession and procedures for addressing presidential disability.
Twenty-sixth Amendment: Lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
Twenty-seventh Amendment: Delays Congressional pay changes from taking effect until after the next election.

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Test your knowledge on the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution with this quiz. Learn about the freedoms and rights guaranteed to citizens, including speech, arms, and legal protections. Perfect for understanding American civil liberties and the foundations of democracy.