27th Amendment

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

This amendment prevents Congress from voting themselves a raise. If there is a pay raise than it will not take effect untill the next term.


The 27th amendment stops Congressmen from giving themselves large raises, the pay raise will not take effect untill the next term.


This last amendment makes sure that Congress doesn't get to crazy and give themselves am a million dollar pay check.

26th Amendment

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.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.


Before the 26th amendment men at the age of 18 were able to go away to war, fight and die for their country but they were not able to vote for who they wanted to run their nation.


Before the voting age was 21, the youth of America wanted it lowered because of the other things, like the draft and fighting in the Vietnam war, that were going on at the time. Many believed that if 18 year olds were old enough to be forced to fight in a way than they should be able to vote.

25th Amendment

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

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.

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.

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.

Lists out wthe Presidental succesion. The President elects a new Vice President.

1. Vice President
2. Speaker of the House
3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate
4. Secretary of State
5. Secretary of the Treasury
6. Secretary of Defense
7. Attorney General
8. Secretary of the Interior
9. Secretary of Agriculture
10. Secretary of Commerce
11. Secretary of Labor
12. Secretary of Health and Human Services
13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
14. Secretary of Transportation
15. Secretary of Energy
16. Secretary of Education
17. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
18. Secretary of Homeland security

This is the list that is followed if something is to happen to the President, the Vice President and so on.


This video talks about who become the next President if something happens to the President. It also talks about why it was put in the Constitution that Congress can stop the next successor from becoming President.

24th Amendment

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 any poll tax or other tax.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Got rid of any taxs or tests that had to be passed for a citizan to be able to vote. Allowed more African Americans the ability to vote.

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Poll taxes were not the only thing keeping African Americans from voting, there were also literacy or understanding tests that had to be passed first.


In the Jim Crow south voters were made to pay poll taxes before they could vote. This would not be a problem for most whites but african americans could not afford this. Poll taxes were the souths legal way of getting around the 15th amendment. The 24th made sure that all citizans could vote and that no local government could stop them.

23rd Amendment

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the 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.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Gave Washingtion D.C. electoral votes, but no represenatives in Congress.


Washington DC did not have any say in elections untill 1961, even though it was our nations capital and where our government was placed, when DC was given electoral votes.

This schoolhouse rock video explains why it is so important for Washington DC to have electoral votes. If they didn't their votes would mean nothing, and count for nothing.

22nd Amendment

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 the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the 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.

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.

Limits the President to being elected to two terms. Specifies that the President can only be elected twice, not that they can only serve eight years.

The video explains about why term limits were set, and how the two term limit began.


Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only President in history to be elected for four terms. Term limits were later put into the Constitution, this was so that America would never become a monarchy, with only one person ruling.

21st Amendment

The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

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.

The 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.

Repealed the 18th Amendment, made alochol legal again.

This video talks about the repeal of the 18th amendment. It talks about all the jobs that were gotten back since the repeal, and how the repeal contributes to less crime, because alochol is now legal and people don't have to sneak around to get it.


This video talks about repealing prohibition not only helped people get more jobs. But they also talk about how repealing the 18th amendment helps to stop crime, and get rid of the criminals that chashed in on probhition.