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.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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.
- Vice President
- Speaker of the House
- President Pro Tempore of the Senate
- Secretary of State
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Secretary of Defense
- Attorney General
- Secretary of the Interior
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Secretary of Commerce
- Secretary of Labor
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Secretary of Transportation
- Secretary of Energy
- Secretary of Education
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Secretary of Homeland security
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.
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.
.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.
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.
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.
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.
20th Amendment
The terms of the President and 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.
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.
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 elect 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.
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.
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
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.
Changed the legslative session start time. Said Congress must meet at least once a year. Also says that if something happens to the President the Vice President takes over.
Changed the legslative session start time. Said Congress must meet at least once a year. Also says that if something happens to the President the Vice President takes over.
After a President is elected, they do not start their term untill January 20th of the next year.
If anything ever happens to the President than the Vice President takes over immediatly. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in after John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in 1963.
19th Amendment
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.
Gave women the right to vote.
Women were the last to be able to vote in America, they fought long and hard for this right. They thought that they should have the same rights as any man.
The School House Rock video talks about how all that was expected of women was to take care of the house and kids, but they were not good enough to vote. And how the woman's suffrage movement started.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Gave women the right to vote.
Women were the last to be able to vote in America, they fought long and hard for this right. They thought that they should have the same rights as any man.
The School House Rock video talks about how all that was expected of women was to take care of the house and kids, but they were not good enough to vote. And how the woman's suffrage movement started.
18th Amendment
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.
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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.
Made alcohol illegal.
Made alcohol illegal.
Shows how some Americans thought that alochol would be the downfall of American, this is why they wanted made illegal.
This is a trailer from the show Boardwalk Empire. It shows how prohibition, instead of getting rid of crime, it increased it.
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.
Put the duty of electing senators in the hands of the people. Repealed article 1 section 3. How many senators each state gets.
The US has 100 senators, two from each state. Even though DC has electoral votes they do not have any represenatives.
Some think that the 17th amendment should be repealed, because it goes aganist what the original Constitution wanted. Groups such as the Tea Party, say that by empowering the states it empoweres the people. The original thought of having state legislators electing senators would create a strong relationship between the state and federal government.
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.
Put the duty of electing senators in the hands of the people. Repealed article 1 section 3. How many senators each state gets.
The US has 100 senators, two from each state. Even though DC has electoral votes they do not have any represenatives.
Some think that the 17th amendment should be repealed, because it goes aganist what the original Constitution wanted. Groups such as the Tea Party, say that by empowering the states it empoweres the people. The original thought of having state legislators electing senators would create a strong relationship between the state and federal government.
16th Amendment
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.
Gave the federal government the right to tax citizans.
Gave the federal government the right to tax citizans.
This video is saying that taxs are a breech of Americans liberties. Citizans should be able to keep all of their money, and that the federal government should stop taxing income.
The saying is "nothing is certian but death and taxes" taxes cannot be avoided. Everyone has to pay taxes on the money that they make. How much these taxes should be has long been debated,.
15th Amendment
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. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Gave African Americans the right to vote.
This video says 13th Amendment, but I think that it has more to do with the 15th. This woman is talking about her right to vote, showing how important this amendment was and still is to African Americans.
Voting, for african americans, was a way to get more equality. Because they could now vote blacks had a say in the government and who was running it. They could now vote for a change from the way things were, and vote to make thing better for their future.
Gave African Americans the right to vote.
This video says 13th Amendment, but I think that it has more to do with the 15th. This woman is talking about her right to vote, showing how important this amendment was and still is to African Americans.
Voting, for african americans, was a way to get more equality. Because they could now vote blacks had a say in the government and who was running it. They could now vote for a change from the way things were, and vote to make thing better for their future.
14th Amendment
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Made all African Americans citizans, saying that they should be treated like anyone else. Allowed stated to deny voting rights to felons. And stated that anyone that once served in the rebellion could not hold office.
Today there is much controversy over this amendment. It makes babies that have been born in America citizens, allowing immigrants to stay in the country. Some want to change this amendment so that this law does not apply to children born to people who are not already citizans of the US.
The 14th amendment gave citizanship to all African Americans, and was suppose to make them equal, and give them all the rights that whites had.
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.
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.
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.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Made all African Americans citizans, saying that they should be treated like anyone else. Allowed stated to deny voting rights to felons. And stated that anyone that once served in the rebellion could not hold office.
Today there is much controversy over this amendment. It makes babies that have been born in America citizens, allowing immigrants to stay in the country. Some want to change this amendment so that this law does not apply to children born to people who are not already citizans of the US.
The 14th amendment gave citizanship to all African Americans, and was suppose to make them equal, and give them all the rights that whites had.
13th Amendment
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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Freed all slaves.
This amendment gave all slaves their freedom. It says that any involuntary servitude is illegal.
Although the 13th amendment freed all slaves, it did not make them equal. Many years after the amendment was passed African Americans were treated unfairly it would take several other amendments and the Civil rights movement for the 13th amendment to truly be followed.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Freed all slaves.
This amendment gave all slaves their freedom. It says that any involuntary servitude is illegal.
Although the 13th amendment freed all slaves, it did not make them equal. Many years after the amendment was passed African Americans were treated unfairly it would take several other amendments and the Civil rights movement for the 13th amendment to truly be followed.
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 the 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.
President and Vice President are to be voted for separately. The Vice President must meet the same requsites as the President.
This amendment unintentionally endorsed political parties, by making a President and a Vice President run together. When Andrew Jakson won the popular vote in 1824 he did not become President, but neither did the other two canidates, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, who were also from the republican party, the only party at that time. When the vote went to the House Clay, who was the Speaker of the House, dropped out. Clay convinced the House to vote for Adams, than was made Secratry of State. Jackson, angry about this, left the republican party and made his own, the democratic-republicans.
The 12th amendment was put into place because, although Aaron Burr was the Vice President canidate and Thomas Jefferson was the Presidental canidate they both recieved the same number of electoral votes. This ment that the vote had to go to the House of Re[resenatives. Now the two are voted for seperatly so this will not happen again.
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 the 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.
President and Vice President are to be voted for separately. The Vice President must meet the same requsites as the President.
This amendment unintentionally endorsed political parties, by making a President and a Vice President run together. When Andrew Jakson won the popular vote in 1824 he did not become President, but neither did the other two canidates, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, who were also from the republican party, the only party at that time. When the vote went to the House Clay, who was the Speaker of the House, dropped out. Clay convinced the House to vote for Adams, than was made Secratry of State. Jackson, angry about this, left the republican party and made his own, the democratic-republicans.
The 12th amendment was put into place because, although Aaron Burr was the Vice President canidate and Thomas Jefferson was the Presidental canidate they both recieved the same number of electoral votes. This ment that the vote had to go to the House of Re[resenatives. Now the two are voted for seperatly so this will not happen again.
11th Amendment
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.
States cannot be sued by citizens of other states in federal court. States can wave this right if they want to.
The 11th amendment says that no state can be sued by any other country.
States cannot be sued by citizens of other states in federal court. States can wave this right if they want to.
The 11th amendment says that no state can be sued by any other country.
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