Extended Bill of Rights Goal 2

Eleventh Amendment  Placed limits on suits against states.

Twelfth Amendment  Changed the procedure for electing president and vice-president.

Thirteenth Amendment  Passed in 1865  Officially outlawed slavery in the United States  Outlawed any sort of forced labor, except as a punishment for a crime.

Fourteenth Amendment  Supreme Court Cases:  Scott v. Sanford- ruled that blacks were not citizens and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional  Plessy v Fergusson - rules Separate but Equal  Brown v Board of Education – overturned Separate but equal  Passed in 1868  granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States  Banned states from denying any person life liberty, or property without due process of law and it banned states from denying any person equal protection under the law.

Fifteenth Amendment  Last Civil War Amendment  Guaranteed the right to vote to African Americans  Only gave men the right to vote  Individual states had the power to decide whether women could vote regardless of race

Sixteenth Amendment  Gives the authority to levy income taxes.

Seventeenth Amendment  Was passed to allow voter to elect there senate directly  Changed the election process which Americans a greater voice in there government

Eighteenth Amendment  Prohibition of Alcohol

Nineteenth Amendment  Was passed in 1920  Gave women the right to vote in all national and state elections.

Twentieth Amendment  Changes the beginning of Presidential and Congressional terms

Twenty-first Amendment  Repeals Prohibition

Twenty-second Amendment  Establishes a two term limit for President

Twenty-Third Amendment  Enabled residence who lived in Washington D.C. to able to vote.  Citizens of D.C. could not vote until the passage of the 23 rd Amendment because D.C. was not a state

Twenty-Fourth Amendment  Was passed in 1964  Abolished poll taxes making them illegal in national elections  Two years later the Supreme Court ruled that poll taxes were illegal in state elections

Twenty-fifth Amendment  Defines the succession of the office of President

Twenty Sixth Amendment  Before the passage of the 26 th Amendment in 1971 the minimum voting age was 21.  The passage of the 26 th Amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18yo.

Twenty Seventh Amendment  Placed limits on Congressional pay raises until the next term.