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1. No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
2. The income of congress members cannot be altered during a term.
3. No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives
This means that members of the congress will not recieved an increased check unless voted for the next term.

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1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2. This amendment states that anyone who is a legal adult citizen can vote regardless of age.
3.  The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older
Previously the voting age was 21, but this amendment lowered it to 18.

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1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.// Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.// Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.// Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
2. Whenever the president is unable to temporarily or permanently fulfill their duties, the vice president is in charge of taking their place.
3. the Vice President shall become President.// Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President
Part of the duty of the vice president is to fill in when the president is unable to do their job as president.

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1. 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 poll tax or other tax.// The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2. Voting can't be denied because of a lack of poll taxes.
3.  by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax
Poll taxes, which previously were used in polls to authorize voters, are outlawed.

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1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as 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. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2. The amendment allowed Washington D.C's citizens to vote for the electoral college candidates.
3. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct
The right to attend federal elections is now allowed in Washington D.C

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1. 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 President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by 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.// This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
2. This means that the elected president may only serve two terms.
3. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
This means that the president my only serve 1-2 4 year terms.

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1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.// The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.// This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
2. This amendment formally repealed the 18th, allowing alcohol to be legal to drink and use recreationally again.
3. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed
This amendment solely was made to invalidate the earlier amendment, used to prohibit alcohol drinking.

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1. The terms of the President and the 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.// The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.// This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
2. This amendment means that the  terms of a president are time limited and may only be controlled by the same candidate twice.
3. Lame Duck- A politician whose successor has already been elected.

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1. 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.
2. This means that someone's biological sex can't limit their right to vote.
3. by any State on account of sex.
The dictations on someone's right to vote aren't controlled by gender/sex.

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1.  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.// The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.// This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
2. This amendment means that the sell of alcohol is illegal in terms of the government.
3. thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited
This means that recreational drinking alcohol is outlawed.

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1. 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.

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
2. This means that senators voted equally by each state will compose the senate.
3. elected by the people
This means that the process through which the senate is chosen is directly from the citizens.

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1. 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.
2. This means that the government has the authority to tax any income without dividing.
3. The income tax is a tax that is dependent on the income of the citizen.

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1. 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. The congress shall have to power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2. This amendment means that any official citizen in the United States has the right to vote, whether they are an ex-slave, non-white, etc.
3. In political election, those who are african american, or are ex-slaves, have a right to vote that is protected by the law.

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1.  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.//  Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.// No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.// The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.// The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
2. This amendment means that anyone born in the U.S is a citizen and deserves the rights that an American citizen has, and any American citizen may run for citizen and this can't be denied. The government must enforce these rules.
3. nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
This means citizens have protected rights from the government.
the equal protection of the laws.
The citizens are treated equally and are collectively protected by the law.

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1. 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.// Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2. This amendment means that slavery isn't legal unless it is done to pay for a crime, and the government must follow this.

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1. "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."
2. This means that people have to have seperate votes for vice and president, if not decided, senate will choose. Voters may only cats one vote for president.
3. they shall name in their ballots the person voted for
This means that the voter must only provide a single person, and a single vote for this position

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A11

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1. "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."
2. This means that the state can't be sued freely by another state.
3. "shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law"
The state doesn't have to except a lawsuit.

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1. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution
The laws that aren't written belong to the states.
2. nor prohibited by it to the States
These laws are state specific.
3. are reserved to the States respectively
These laws belong to the states rather than the country as a whole.
4. or to the people
The citizens of selective states withhold these laws.

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1. The enumeration in the Constitution
The rights that aren't written down but are necessary are still a priority.
2. of certain rights
There are selective rights that are not written.
3. shall not be construed to deny or disparage
Regardless of the technical non officiality, the laws are still in tact.
4. others retained by the people.
Citizen must maintain these as if they are written laws.

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1. No excessive bail
Excessive bail shall not be required
The bail a criminal requires must no exceed a reasonable amount.
2. No excessive fines
nor excessive fines imposed
The fine of a crime must be an appropriate amount for the crime.
3. No cruel or unusual punishment.
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
The punishment of a crime must be fitting and non-sadistic.

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1.  where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars
If the accuser intends on suing for a sum larger than $20.
2. the right of trial by jury shall be preserved
The case must be taken in front of a jury.
3. and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States
Any case that was avoided by a jury in the situation must be re tried.
4. than according to the rules of the common law.
This overrides the regular rules.

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1. Speedy Trial
the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial
The criminal shall have a prioritized case.
2. Jury of your peers
impartial jury of the State and district
The jury cannot be biased to either the criminal or accuser.
3. Right to attorney
to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
The criminal has the right to have defense.
4. To informed of the accusation
to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation
The criminal has the right to know why and how the jury intends on punishing.

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1. Self incrimination
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself
A criminal cannot testify for himself alone in court.
2. Double jeopardy
nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb
No criminal should be tried twice for the same crime.
3. Due Process
without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Criminals should be treated along other laws, including the respect of privacy.
4. Grand Jury Indictment
unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury
Infamous crimes must only be presented in front of a grand jury.

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1. to be secure in their persons
Each citizen has a personal right of privacy and security.
2. houses
Citizen's houses are not available for non consensual searches.
3. papers and effects
Personal and legal papers of an individual are private to that person until required legally.
4. against unreasonable searches and seizures
No aspect of an individual can be non consensually searched or seized if not required legally.

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1. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house
Military soldiers cannot be arranged by the government to reside in any stranger's home.
2.  without the consent of the Owner.
The homeowner must legally consent in the off chance of a soldier being quartered.
3. nor in time of war
In times of war, soldiers may still not be quartered.
4. but in a manner to be prescribed by law
If the law deems it necessary, consensual quartering may take place.

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1. Speech and Press;
Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
The government does not possess the ability to selectively limit the freedom to speak and make opinionated writing.
2. Assembly;
Congress shall make no law...prohibiting...the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
The government does not have the authority to outlaw people's act of coming together and publicly expressing an opinion.
3. Petition;
Congress shall make no law … abridging … the right of the people … to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The government can not remove the people's right to group and sign against something they find corrupt.
4. Religion;
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
The government cannot define one religion as a basis, and cannot deny people of their personal beliefs of religion.

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1. Keep Arms
Right of the people to keep... arms
The people have a right to own firearms
2. Maintenance of a militia
A well regulated Militia
A set system to protect citizens.
3. Publicly Bear Arms
The right of the people to... bear arms
Citizens, nationally, can have a firearm in public and use it when needed.
4. Security of state freedom
being necessary to the security of a free State
The citizens may have a defense system in order to simply protect freedom.