An amendment is an addition to the U.S. Constitution. It may amend or change something that is in the Constitution or it may be a new law which affects something not mentioned in the Constitution.
The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, and as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution; Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the
Amendment 1: Freedom of Religious Political Freedoms
Amendment 2: The Right To Bear Arms
Amendment 3: Quartering Soldiers
Amendment 4: Search and Seizure
Amendment 5: Rights of The Accused In Court
Amendment 6: Additional Rights In The Court
Amendment 7: Jury Trials
Amendment 8: Excessive Bail and Punishment
Amendment 9: Other Rights
Amendment 10: Rights of the States and the People
Amendment 11: Cases Against the States
Amendment 12: Electing the President
Amendment 13: The Abolition of Slavery
Amendment 14: Former Slaves Made Citizens
Amendment 15: Blacks Given Rights to Vote
Amendment 16: Income Tax
Amendment 17: Direct Election of Senators
Amendment 18: Prohibition
Amendment 19: Women Suffrage
Amendment 20: Lame Duck Amendment
Amendment 21: The Repeal of Prohibition
Amendment 22: President's Term of Office
Amendment 23: Electoral Votes for Washington
Amendment 24: Poll Tax Abolished
Amendment 25: Presidential Disability and Succession
Amendment 26: Eighteen-Year-Olds Vote
The 28th amendment to the US Constitution is the amendment that banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. It was ratified on January 16, 1919.
4th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment
sixteenth amendment
The 24th Amendment to the US Constitution
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted on December 6, 1865. It is the Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
In December of 1865, the US amended the US Constitution with the 13th amendment. This abolished slavery in the USA.
The 28th amendment to the US Constitution is the amendment that banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. It was ratified on January 16, 1919.
4th Amendment
13th Amendment
The first amendment.
The Thirteenth Amendment
In 1865 the US Constitution was amended to abolish slavery. The amendment was the 13th one to the Constitution.
That part of the Constitution is in the Preamble.
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By amendment
sixteenth amendment