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USA Constitutional Amendments - Coggle Diagram
USA Constitutional Amendments
Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10) 🎆
First Amendment ✏️
Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, petition
Second Amendment 🔫
Right to bear arms
Third Amendment 🏠
No quartering of soldiers in peacetime
Fourth Amendment 🔍
Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
Fifth Amendment ⚖️
Rights in legal proceedings (e.g., self-incrimination, due process)
Sixth Amendment 🕒
Right to a speedy, public, and fair trial
Seventh Amendment 🧑⚖️
Right to jury trial in civil cases over $20
Eighth Amendment 🚫
No excessive bail, fines, or cruel punishment
Ninth Amendment 🗝️
People have rights beyond those listed in the Constitution
Tenth Amendment 🌐
Powers not delegated to federal government go to states/people
Later Amendments (11-27) 📜
Eleventh Amendment 🚫🗂️
Limits lawsuits against states
Twelfth Amendment 🗳️
Separate ballots for President and VP
Thirteenth Amendment ✊
Abolishes slavery
Fourteenth Amendment 🏛️
Citizenship, due process, and equal protection
Fifteenth Amendment 🗳️✊
Voting rights regardless of race
Sixteenth Amendment 💰
Federal income tax authorized
Seventeenth Amendment 🗳️🏛️
Direct election of Senators
Eighteenth Amendment 🍺🚫
Prohibition of alcohol
Nineteenth Amendment 🚺🗳️
Women's suffrage
Twentieth Amendment ⏳
Changes start dates for terms; succession issues
Twenty-First Amendment 🍺✅
Repeals Prohibition
Twenty-Second Amendment 📅
Limits President to two terms
Twenty-Third Amendment 🏙️
Grants D.C. voting rights in presidential elections
Twenty-Fourth Amendment 🚫💵🗳️
Abolishes poll taxes
Twenty-Fifth Amendment 🤕
Procedures for presidential disability/succession
Twenty-Sixth Amendment 🔞🗳️
Voting age lowered to 18
Twenty-Seventh Amendment 💵📅
Delays congressional pay raises
Connections & Themes 🔗
Civil Rights Amendments 🎤✊
13th, 14th, 15th
Voting Amendments 🗳️
15th, 19th, 24th, 26th
Prohibition Cycle 🍺
18th ➡️ 21st
Governance & Succession 🏛️
12th, 20th, 22nd, 25th