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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: A law can't be passed that will increase or decrease the earnings of members of Congress.
Concept: This will keep them more motivated to win.
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Original Text: 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.
Short Interpretation of text: It means that if the United States is not at war soldiers cannot be placed in people's house without there approval or consent.
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Original Text: '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.
Summary of the Amendment: The president can't be elected for office 2 times and someone who has held the office of president can't for more than 2 years.
Concept: Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for 4 terms so congress decided to make the max amount of terms for a president, 2.
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Original Text: 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.
Summary of the Amendment: U.S citizens who are 18 or older should not be denied to vote.
Concept: Many people felt if they were old enough to fight they are old enough to vote.
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Original Text:  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 of the Amendment: Manufacturing, Selling, or transporting intoxication liquors is illegal.
Concept: Cops smashed the barrels of booze because it's illegal
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Original Text: 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.
Summary of the Amendment: When the Vice president seat is empty the president has to choose someone and they have to have a majority vote by both of the Houses of Congress.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: No citizens of the United States should get denied to vote for any reason such as failure to pay a poll tax or any tax.
Concept: Everyone who is a U.S citizen should get to vote and this problem was denying some people that.
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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 of the Amendment: Residents in Washington DC can vote for the representatives in the Electoral College.
Concept: The government and the people felt like it wasn't fair for people living in Washington D.C. not to vote in Federal elections.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: Citizens of the U.S should be able to vote no matter what sex or gender they are.
Concept: I want to vote but I am a women so I can't.
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Original Text: 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.
Summary of the Amendment: The Senate of the U.S should have 2 senators from each state for 6 years and they have one vote.
Concept: Senators are directly elected by the people.
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Original Text: If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.
Summary of the Amendment: If the president dies while his term is still going on the Vice President becomes the President.
Concept: The lame duck is when an outgoing politician is an elected official whose successor has already been elected or will be soon.
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Original Text: 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.
Summary of the Amendment: To make the transportation, manufacturing, or sale of intoxicating liquors legal.
Concept: Franklin D. Roosevelt repealed the 18th Amendment
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: Congress can levy a tax and collect taxes from anyone or any source.
Concept: Congress made me pay taxes because they have the power too.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: Voting shouldn't be denied for anyone who is a citizen of the United States and this includes if someone is African American or any other ethnicity.
Concept: If someone is African American and they are a U.S citizen they shall not be denied the right to vote.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: African Americans and slaves are equal and it also states that all people born in the U.S are equal.
2 Concepts:
Citizenship- If someone is born in the U.S he will have the equal privileges no matter what.
Equal Protection- If someone is a U.S Citizen they will have equal protection no matter what.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: The Senate has to choose between two candidates who have the highest number of electoral votes.
Concept: A U.S citizen can only vote for one of the presidential candidates.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment: Abolished Slavery in the United States.
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Original Text: 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 of the Amendment:  The federal courts can't hear specific lawsuits against states.
Concept: After the Revolutionary War, a British citizen in Massachusetts tried to sue the state over property he had lost during the war.
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