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Amend	Description	Congress	Ratified
I	Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
II	Strong militia, ...right to keep and bear arms	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
III	No soldier shall,...be quartered...without consent	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
IV	Unreasonable search and seizure, probable cause.	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
V	Due process, self incrimination, twice in jeopardy, private property	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
VI	Speedy and public trial, right to counsel	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
VII	Trial by jury	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
VIII	Right to bail, no cruel and unusual punishment	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
IX	Constitution...not to... deny rights retained by people	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
X	Powers retained by the states and by the people	09-25-1789	12-15-1791
XI	US judicial roll with states clarified	03-04-1794	02-07-1795
XII	Change in method of electing President	12-09-1803	06-15-1804
XIII	Abolition of slavery within the US	01-31-1865	12-06-1865
XIV	Freedom for slaves, reapportionment, validity of debt	06-13-1866	07-09-1868
XV	Right to vote: blacks	02-26-1869	02-03-1870
XVI	Congressional authority to tax income	07-12-1909	02-03-1913
XVII	Direct election of Senators	05-13-1912	04-08-1913
XVIII	Prohibition of intoxicating liquors	12-18-1917	01-16-1919
XIX	Right to vote: women	06-04-1919	08-18-1920
XX	Change terms of office: President and Congress, Presidential ascession	03-02-1932	01-23-1933
XXI	Repeal of Amendment XVIII: prohibition	02-20-1933	12-05-1933
XXII	Term limits for President	03-21-1947	02-27-1951
XXIII	Right to vote: District Of Columbia	06-17-1960	03-29-1961
XXIV	Right to vote without poll or other taxes	08-27-1962	01-23-1964
XXV	Presidency, ascenssion to office	07-06-1965	02-10-1967
XXVI	Right to vote, eighteen years old	03-23-1971	07-01-1971
XXVII	Congressional pay raises, limits on	09-25-1789(1)	05-07-1992
Amendments Not Ratified
NR	Re-apportionment	09-25-1789(2)	Not ratified
NR	Titles of nobility, to repeal provision against	1800	Not ratified
NR	Slavery, to preserve states' rights	03-02-1861	Not ratified
NR	Child labor, to allow Congress to regulate	06-02-1926	Not ratified
NR	Equal rights, women - ERA	03-22-1972	Not ratified
NR	District Of Columbia, give "State" rights for voting, repeal Amend XXIII	08-22-1978	Not ratified
(1) This is not an error. This proposal was approved by Congress in 1789 along with eleven others. • First of the twelve was for re-apportionment [See (2) above] and is still unratified although Amendment XIV covers this same subject and was ratified in 1868. • Second on the list was about Congressional pay raises [See (1) above] and was ratified in 1992 to become Amendment XXVII. • Three through twelve were ratified by 12/15/1791 and became Amendments I - X -- the Bill Of Rights.

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