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U.S. GOVT Exam #1 Part 1 - Constitution
eleventh - twenty-seventh amendments
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Social Studies
Undergraduate 1
07/15/2012

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Eleventh Amendment
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States cannot sue other states in federal court.
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Twelfth Amendment
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Members of the Electoral College cast separate ballots for president and vice president.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Slavery is abolished; Congress has the right to enforce abolition.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Provides due process and equal protection under the law to citizens, who are all persons "born or naturalized in the U.S."
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying individuals the right to vote based on race, color, or prior servitude.
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Sixteenth Amendment
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Creates the income tax.
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Seventeenth Amendment
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Establishes the direct election of senators
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Bans alcohol; Prohibition begins.
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Nineteenth Amendment
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Gives women the right to vote.
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Twentieth Amendment
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Changes conditions of presidential and congressional terms and of presidential succession.
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Twenty-First Amendment
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Prohibition is repealed
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Twenty-Second Amendment
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The President cannot serve more than two terms.
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Twenty-Third Amendment
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Gives presidential electors to the District of Columbia.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from requiring payment of a poll tax as a qualification for voting.
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Twenty-Fifth Amendment
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Changes conditions of the presidential succession, allows temporary removal of a president, and allows the replacement of a vice president.
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Twenty-Sixth Amendment
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Grants citizens eighteen years and older the right to vote.
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Twenty-Seventh Amendment
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Limits congressional pay raises.
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