Amendments 11-27 by https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr By Ya Boi Ez en-us 2020-01-27 16:40:55 UTC 2020-01-31 16:06:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/436513015 "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."]]> 2020-01-27 16:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/436513015 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/436513662 The power of the judicial court is regulated, in the sense that it cannot hear cases if the case involves a suit invoked by a citizen of a certain state against another state, or a foreign country. For the most part, you cannot sue a state in federal court.]]> 2020-01-27 16:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/436513662 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437064379 2020-01-28 16:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437064379 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437066166 "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.]]> 2020-01-28 16:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437066166 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437069288 The 12th amendment was supposed to correct the previous voting system's mistakes. Previously, the person in 2nd place served as the VP. This amendment provided separate electoral college votes for the position of president and vice president.]]> 2020-01-28 16:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437069288 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437642035 "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."]]> 2020-01-29 16:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437642035 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437642307 This amendment essentially abolished slavery or involuntary servitude in the U.S or it's territories, unless it is punishment for a crime that person committed.]]> 2020-01-29 16:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437642307 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437646179 This picture shows the chains of slavery being broken by the 13th amendment.]]> 2020-01-29 16:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437646179 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437657295 2020-01-29 16:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437657295 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437663843 "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.']]> 2020-01-29 16:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437663843 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437674430 "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.”]]> 2020-01-29 16:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437674430 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437674494 This amendment established that the right to vote can't be denied because of an individual's background. Along with the 13th and 14th amendments, this amendment was designed to give minorities the right to vote. This combated discriminatory laws, which usually prevented blacks from voting. These laws were especially prominent in the South, where slavery had just been abolished.]]> 2020-01-29 16:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437674494 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437679032 This amendment gave rights to the U.S government, in the sense that the U.S government can have an income tax. People who work at a job have a gross pay that they make from their work, and a net pay they take home after all taxes are taken out.]]> 2020-01-29 16:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/437679032 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438248155 This calls for the direct election of U.S senators by citizens as opposed to state legislatures, and clarifies that each state of the U.S gets two senators. It also provided that, if need be, the legislative powers of the state grant the power to the executive to temporarily appoint a substitution for the vacant senate spot.]]> 2020-01-30 16:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438248155 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438250062 This amendment bans the production, sale or transportation of alcohol. Many religious as well as some secular organizations discouraged the use of alcohol and dismissed it as morally wrong, which had an influence in the passing of this amendment in 1919]]> 2020-01-30 16:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438250062 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438256542 This law gave women the right to vote. It established that voting cannot be denied based on sex or gender.]]> 2020-01-30 16:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438256542 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438262541 This basically shortens the time until the next president can serve after the previous president. If the president elect dies, then the V.P elect takes over. Congress also has the ability to appoint a substitute for the president if the president nor the V.P can take charge.]]> 2020-01-30 16:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438262541 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438273544 This legalized the production, sale or transportation of alcohol.]]> 2020-01-30 16:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438273544 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438275821 This sets a two term limit on the president, unless the VP runs for the previous president's term and runs for their own term. At the time this was ratified, no individuals who were president or acting as president were affected.]]> 2020-01-30 16:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438275821 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438279548 This allows for DC to vote for electors and participate in the presidential elections, though the District of Columbia is still not considered a state. Previously, they were too afraid to give people in D.C the right to vote, as D.C contains a lot of the political powers. ]]> 2020-01-30 16:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438279548 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438280980 This amendment sought to ban poll taxes, which were originally designed to restrict voting rights for minorities such as blacks.]]> 2020-01-30 16:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438280980 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438471348 This amendment gives the right to citizenship to those who are born in the United States, and any citizenship has certain privileges granted to it. Among these are equal protection under the law, life, liberty, or property. In the context of the time (1968, respectively), this makes sense; at this time, a lot of former slaves did not have citizenship rights. As this amendment established the rights of people born in the United States, former slaves continued to gain more personal freedoms and constitutional rights.]]> 2020-01-30 21:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438471348 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438475331 As segregation was continually described to be unconstitutional and not separate but equal, people appealed to the 14th amendment, which describes that any citizen of the U.S has the right to equal protection.]]> 2020-01-30 21:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438475331 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438482332 "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."]]> 2020-01-30 21:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438482332 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438485507 2020-01-30 21:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438485507 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438488421 This shows the way earned money splits during tax deductions. Most of it goes to the worker, but some of it goes to tax payments.]]> 2020-01-30 21:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438488421 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438489579 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
]]> 2020-01-30 21:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438489579 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438493323 2020-01-30 21:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438493323 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438494376 "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."]]> 2020-01-30 21:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438494376 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438494477 This image shows alcohol being dumped by the order of police and law enforcement.]]> 2020-01-30 21:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438494477 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438495938 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.
]]> 2020-01-30 22:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438495938 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438496240 The aftermath of this amendment included the surge of women who took to the voting polls to... well... Vote!]]> 2020-01-30 22:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438496240 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438496775 "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... 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. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified."]]> 2020-01-30 22:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438496775 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438499300 2020-01-30 22:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438499300 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438499813 "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed."]]> 2020-01-30 22:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438499813 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438499898 This shows that people were glad that they could drink legally again.]]> 2020-01-30 22:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438499898 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438500585 "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."]]> 2020-01-30 22:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438500585 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438501037 2020-01-30 22:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438501037 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438501605 "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."
]]> 2020-01-30 22:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438501605 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438507748 This picture embodies the protest against the paradox of taxation without representation, which the 23rd amendment sought to reverse.]]> 2020-01-30 22:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438507748 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438513962 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.]]> 2020-01-30 23:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438513962 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438514598 The civilians shown are pushing their 24th amendment right to not pay poll taxes to vote.]]> 2020-01-30 23:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438514598 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438516479 "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."]]> 2020-01-30 23:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438516479 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438517971 This amendment gives instructions for if the president is unable to do his job. The Vice President becomes president if cases of if the president is sick, dead, resigned or jobless. The powers go to the vice president unless the president writes a letter to the speaker of the house or president pro tempore of the Senate saying otherwise.]]> 2020-01-30 23:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438517971 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438519963 "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."]]> 2020-01-30 23:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438519963 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438520209 Imagine that the president, Donald Trump, is not feeling too well, and is asking the VP, Pence, to take over. The VP takes over in that case.]]> 2020-01-30 23:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438520209 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438520982 This amendment lowers the voting age to 18. During the making of this amendment back in 1971, the Vietnam War was happening, and many Americans argued that if an American who was 18 could fight, then they also had the right to vote.]]> 2020-01-30 23:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438520982 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438522607 2020-01-30 23:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438522607 Text ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438523098 "No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."]]> 2020-01-30 23:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438523098 Summary ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438523168 This amendment states that laws increasing or decreasing the salaries of members of congress will be prohibited.]]> 2020-01-30 23:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438523168 Picture ehernandez115 https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438523583 2020-01-30 23:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandez115/bjkmhyv0blhr/wish/438523583