Amendments 11-27

Amendment 11

• 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.

AMENDMENT 12

• 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

AMENDMENT 13

• The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

AMENDMENT 14

• granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

AMENDMENT 15

• prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

AMENDMENT 16

• allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.

AMENDMENT 17

• established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.

AMENDMENT 18

• The prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States.

AMENDMENT 19

• prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.

AMENDMENT 20

• moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3.

AMENDMENT 21

• repealed the Eighteenth Amendment

AMENDMENT 22

• sets a limit on the number of times an individual is eligible for election to the office of President of the United States

AMENDMENT 23

• extends the right to vote in presidential elections to citizens residing in the District of Columbia.

AMENDMENT 24

• prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

AMENDMENT 25

• deals with issues related to presidential succession and disability.

AMENDMENT 26

• prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

AMENDMENT 27

• prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives.