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No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Summary: congress people can raise there own salary but it goes into effect if they get reelected.

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The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.” It prohibits states from discriminating among voters based on age, for people who are at least 18 years old, and grants Congress power to “enforce” that prohibition through appropriate legislation.
Summary: the voting age is 18.

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In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Summary: if something happens to the president the vice president steps in either permanent or temporary.

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The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Summary: citizens can vote with out having to pay.

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The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Summary: people in Washington d.c can vote in only presidential elections.

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No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Summary: presidents can only serve two, four year terms.

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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Summary: alcohol is not banned.

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The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Summary: this is when the current president leaves and the new president steps in.

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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Summary: women can vote.

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After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Summary: alcohol is banned.

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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures
Summary: senators are elected and there are two senators per state.

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The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration
Summary: the government can collect taxes.

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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Summary: everybody can vote. It doesn't matter about gender or color.

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Summary: everybody born or is a citizen of the united states has equal rights.

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Summary: slavery is gone and for any reason can not be used as punishment.

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The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;-The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;-The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President-The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States
Summary: people voting can only vote for one person. the person with the most vote wins.

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The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
Summary: cant sue without the state or citizen permission.

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congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise therefore; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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the people have the right to assembly with proper paperwork.

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the people are able to petition the laws and rules they don't like and they want them changed.

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the people have a right to believe in what ever they want. the government doesn't have a religion established.

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the people have a right to document what's going on and ask questions.

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the people have the right to voice there own opinion with limitations.

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Bear Arms
a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

people have the right to keep guns to protect themselves.

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No Quartering of Soldiers
no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in  a manner to be prescribed by law.

no solders are allowed to go into a home without consent of the owner.

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Protection from Search and Seizure
the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

the government can not search or seize any of your property or come into you house without probable cause to get a warrant or without your consent.

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Self Incrimination, Double Jeopardy, Due Process, Grand Jury Indictment. and Eminent
no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
eminent (government can use your property for pubic use)

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the people have a right to not talk if it will affect them.

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the people get a fair trial. nothing can be taken away from them with out a trial. everything has a process.

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nobody can be tried for the same crime twice even if new evidence comes up.

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the grand jury tells the accused the charges that they have. first they listen to the prosecutor and witnesses then votes.

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government cannot use your property unless its just or for public use.

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Speedy trial, Jury of your peers, Right to Attorney, to informed of the accusation
in a criminal persecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witness against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witness in his favor, and to  have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

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people have a right to a speedy trial meaning that there trial will not take years and years to start.

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You have a right to have a jury. The jury will be people from the state the crime happened.

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people have the right to have someone represent them in there defense in court.

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you have the right to know why you are being charged and what you are being charged for.

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Trial by Jury in civil cases
in Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved , and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the united states, than according to the rules of the common law.

if the amount being sued for is over twenty dollars you have the right to a jury.

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No excessive Bail No excessive fines, no cruel and unusual punishment
excessive bail shall not be required, no excessive fines imposed, nor cruel unusual punishments inflicted.

No Excessive Bail
the judge can not make anyone pay an outrageous amount of money.

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the government can not do any cruel punishments to anyone.

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no government can give an excessive amount of money.

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Rights and powers not listed and expressed in the constitution are reserved for the states
the powers not delegated to the united states by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people

the states are protected to anything they didn't list in the rights.

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Rights not listed are still protected and belong to the people
the enumeration in the constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

This insures that new laws and rights that come that affect people will be protected.