27 Amendments (Best Definitions)
Exam Questions and Answers
1st Amendment - -Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and
Petition
- 2nd Amendment - -Right to Keep, Bear Arms
- 3rd Amendment - -No Lodging Troops in Private Homes
- 4th Amendment - -No unlawful Search, Seizures
- 5th Amendment - -Criminal Proceedings;guarantees Due Process; Eminent
Domain; no Double Jeopardy; no Self incrimination
- 6th Amendment - -Criminal Proceedings; right to speedy and fair trial;
Must inform defendant of charge/s; Right to Attorney; Right to fair impartial
jury
- 7th Amendment - -Trial by Jury in Civil Cases where value exceeds $20
- 8th Amendment - -No excessive Bail or fines; No Cruel or Unusual
Punishment
- 9th Amendment - -Unenumerated Rights (not all individual rights are listed
in constitution)
- 10th Amendment - -Powers Reserved to the States (limits the power of
Federal Government)
- 11th Amendment - -Suits Against States
- 12th Amendment - -Requires separate Electoral ballots for President and
VIce President
- 13th Amendment - -Abolished slavery
- 14th Amendment - -Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized
in the United States"; it forbids any state to deny any person "life, liberty or
property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."
- 15th Amendment - -No denying Right to Vote--- Race, Color, Servitude
Exam Questions and Answers
1st Amendment - -Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and
Petition
- 2nd Amendment - -Right to Keep, Bear Arms
- 3rd Amendment - -No Lodging Troops in Private Homes
- 4th Amendment - -No unlawful Search, Seizures
- 5th Amendment - -Criminal Proceedings;guarantees Due Process; Eminent
Domain; no Double Jeopardy; no Self incrimination
- 6th Amendment - -Criminal Proceedings; right to speedy and fair trial;
Must inform defendant of charge/s; Right to Attorney; Right to fair impartial
jury
- 7th Amendment - -Trial by Jury in Civil Cases where value exceeds $20
- 8th Amendment - -No excessive Bail or fines; No Cruel or Unusual
Punishment
- 9th Amendment - -Unenumerated Rights (not all individual rights are listed
in constitution)
- 10th Amendment - -Powers Reserved to the States (limits the power of
Federal Government)
- 11th Amendment - -Suits Against States
- 12th Amendment - -Requires separate Electoral ballots for President and
VIce President
- 13th Amendment - -Abolished slavery
- 14th Amendment - -Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized
in the United States"; it forbids any state to deny any person "life, liberty or
property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."
- 15th Amendment - -No denying Right to Vote--- Race, Color, Servitude
