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What are the 17 amendments that come after the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution?
17 additional amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution in addition to the original ten in the Bill of Rights for a grand total of 27 amendments.
11: Immunity of states from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders.
12: Revised Presidential election (Changed how the Electoral College had to vote for the president.)
13: Abolished Slavery (After Civil War)
14: Created Citizenship, places punishment upon rebels, (the Confederation), state due process, and revises Representation in the House. (Civil War)
15: Suffrage is no longer restricted by Race. (Civil War)
16: Allows Federal Income tax.
17: Changes the way Senators are elected. They are now elected by the people.
18: Prohibition of Alcohol.
19: Women's Suffrage.
20: Deals with some of the ambiguous detail surrounding the beginning and end of the Presidents term.
21: Repeal of the 18th Amendment, prohibition ends.
22: Limits President to two terms in office.
23: District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) is represented in the Electoral College (but not Congress).
24: Ban of Polling Tax.
25: Edits to Presidential Succession.
26: Lowered Voting age to 18.
27: Restrictions on how the senate decides its own pay.
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Did Article 1 of the constitution come before or after the Bill of Rights?
The Constitution itself was ratified in 1787. The Bill of Rights, the 1st ten amendments to the Constitution, was added to the Constitution in 1789.
Why are amendments to the constitution necessary?
There are 27 amendments to the US Constitution. However, only 17 of them qualify as "changes", because the first 10, collectively referred to as the "Bill of Rights", did not come with the Constitution itself. Since the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, only 17 amendments have been ratified
Where did the first 10 amendments come from?
The Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution was written to limit the power given to the Federal Government and grant more sovereignty to the states. It was added as a compromise ensuring the Anti-Federalists would ratify the Constitution.
Where do the rights of freedom of speech assembly and religion come from?
In the USA, from the US Constitution.
Where did states rights come from?
According to the U.S. Constitution, states' rights come naturally from the rights of the citizens in the states, who get their rights from God. The Constitution only guarantees those rights of the states and individuals that already exist. (This is how the Constitution puts it, not a modern political statement.) The only rights that the Constitution creates are rights of the Federal (U.S.) government.Another way to make this point is that whatever responsibilities are not covered by the US Constitution are left to the States, which is exactly what the 10th Amendment says.
