Easy Way To Remember The Amendments
Question: 1
Answer: Free Speech, press, religion, and assembly
Question: 2- Two bear arms
Answer: Right to bear arms
Question: 3- Three's a crowd
Answer: No quartering of troops in homes
Question: 4- Four doors on a car (think the police want to search your car)
Answer: No unreasonable searches/seizures
Question: 5 (I plead the 5th)
Answer: A person may not be tried twice for the same crime and does not have to testify against themself
Question: 6- Speedy Six
Answer: Right to speedy and public trial and right to lawyer and counsel
Question: 7- You're lucky (777) to get a trial
Answer: Right to trial by jury in civil cases
Question: 8- Sideways handcuffs
Answer: No excessive bail, fines, cruel/unusual punishment
Question: 9- Makes more rights mine
Answer: Rights not enumerated retained by people
Question: 10- Federal laws are what are writTEN
Answer: Powers not delegated to Congress or prohibited to states belong to states or people
Question: 11- 1 on 1
Answer: No federal cases between state, citizen of other state
Question: 12- 1 ballot, 2nd ballot
Answer: The electoral college will vote seperately for president and VP rather than together in one ballot
Question: 13- Free
Answer: Slavery is outlawed!
Question: 14-Citizenize
Answer: Citizenship to former slaves
Question: 15- Vote
Answer: Right to vote can't be denied by race
Question: 16- Turn 16= job
Answer: Congress can levy individual income taxes
Question: 17- senators seventeen
Answer: Direct election of senators
Question: 18- nope 21
Answer: Prohibition of liquors (1917)
Question: 19- becomes a woman
Answer: Right to vote for women (1919)
Question: 20- January 20th
Answer: Dates for inauguration, Congress's session
Question: 21- let's drink!
Answer: Repeal of prohibition (1933)
Question: 22- 2 terms
Answer: Presidential term limits
Question: 23- twenty three rhymes with DC
Answer: D.C. residents' vote for president
Question: 24- no poll tax at the door
Answer: Ban on poll taxes
Question: 25- if he ain't alive
Answer: Appointment of new vice president, presidential incompetence
Question: 26- 2 + 6= 8
Answer: Right to vote for 18-year olds (1971)
Question: 27- the last one ..
Answer: Reps cannot set their own pay