1st amendment
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution was passed in December of 1865. It protects all people. The amendment specifically abolishes slavery.
Several amendments to the US Constitution describe rights of citizens, individually or in groups.
The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, passed in 1870, guaranteed the right to vote for all male Afro Americans of voting age.
The two groups that have the power to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution are: The U.S. Congress The StatesThe U.S. Congress has the power to propose an amendment when two-thirds of both the Senate and the House of Representatives vote in favor of the amendment. The States also have the power to propose an amendment if two-thirds of the state legislatures vote in favor of the amendment. In either case any amendments proposed have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states in order to become part of the Constitution.
an amendment addition or a change to the constitution
1st amendment
1st amendment
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution was passed in December of 1865. It protects all people. The amendment specifically abolishes slavery.
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None of them. The Bill of Rights consist of the first 10 amendments to the constitution. The 15th amendment to the constitution gives people of all races and colors the right to vote. The 19th amendment to the constitution gives women the right to vote.
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was put into affect in 1920. The purpose was to abolish intoxicating liquors. There is no evidence that Protestants, who were the largest religious group in the country, opposed this amendment.
It gave the right for woman to vote.
Several amendments to the US Constitution describe rights of citizens, individually or in groups.
The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, passed in 1870, guaranteed the right to vote for all male Afro Americans of voting age.
The Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law, was designed to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans following the Civil War. Later, other groups, such as Mexican Americans and Asian Americans, cited the Fourteenth Amendment in important court cases to argue for their right to equal protection under the law.
Either a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or a national convention can propose an amendment to the Constitution. Article V of the Constitution says, "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments." (Note: The second method for proposing an amendment has only been used for repeal of the 21st Amendment (Prohibition).)