| Description | Number | Year Ratified |
| Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude | |
| Direct election of senators | |
| Indictments; due process; self-incrimination; double jeopardy, and rules for eminent domain. | |
| No quartering of soldiers in private houses during peacetime. | |
| Term commencements for Congress (January 3) and the President (January 20) | |
| Voting age nationally established at 18 | |
| Prohibition of alcohol | |
| Right to trial by jury in civil cases | |
| Prohibition of the restriction of voting rights due to the non-payment of poll taxes | |
| Variance of congressional compensation | |
| Immunity of states from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders. Lays the foundation for sovereign immunity | |
| Allows federal income tax | |
| Defines citizenship and deals with post-Civil-War issues | |
| Presidential succession | |
| | Description | Number | Year Ratified |
| Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment | |
| Limits the powers of the federal government to only those specifically granted to it by the constitution | |
| Unenumerated rights | |
| Representation of Washington, D.C. in the Electoral College | |
| Enumerates the right to keep and bear arms | |
| Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime | |
| Revises presidential election procedures | |
| Federal recognition of women's suffrage | |
| Rights to a fair and speedy public trial, to notice of accusations, to confront the accuser, to subpoenas, to counsel | |
| Interdiction of unreasonable searches and seizures; search warrant is required to search persons or property | |
| Limits the president to two terms. | |
| Freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, to assemble, and to petition | |
| No excessive bail or fines, or cruel and unusual punishment | |
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