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Chisholm VS. Georgia
This was regarded as the first supreme court case in the history of the United States. The lawsuit involves a resident who sued the state of Georgia for repaying a payment made by the state of Georgia for the purchase of supplies during the American Revolutionary War. The state of Georgia argued that it was an independent state with no business negotiating with federal courts. -
Amendment 11
The eleventh amendment was ratified to prohibit citizens from suiting other states in federal judges. -
Amendment 12
The twelfth amendment was introduced to restore presidential and vice presidential elections. It called for the substitution of Article II, paragraph 1, paragraph 3, where the electoral college had initially functioned. -
Emancipation proclamation
During the war, President Lincoln issued an emancipation declaration aimed at abolishing slavery in the states, but they were used to oppose the Union. Slaves would be free as a result, but they weren't, and many were held as slaves in southern states. Following the conflict, the Emancipation Proclamation led to the adoption of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. -
Amendment 13
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ended slavery and voluntary obedience. -
The Reconstruction Act
Following the conflict, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 was enacted, and the south was split into five military districts and administered by the Union. It was enacted in order to consolidate the Southern states after the Civil War, and the act assisted African American men in gaining the freedom to vote in presidential elections. -
Amendment 14
Citizens of the United States and the State in which they live are all people born or naturalized in the United States and entitled to its regulation. -
Amendment 15
The right to vote cannot be denied depending on race, ethnicity, or a prior state of enslavement. -
Amendment 16
Amendment 16 notes that Congress may have the power to raise income tax without it being allocated among the population-based states. -
Amendment 17
The 17th Amendment empowers electors to choose their senators directly. Each state has two senators in the United States Senate, each of which has one vote. Senators are re-elected every six years. -
Amendment 18
The Eighteenth Amendment made it unlawful to manufacture, import, and sell autoxidation, but it did not make it illegal to drink alcohol. -
Amendment 19
The 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbids states and the federal government from restricting the right to vote on the grounds of sex to residents of the United States. -
Amendment 20
The 20th amendment was made to set the dates on which the elected offices of the federal government must terminate. It also determines who replaces the president after the president dies. -
Amendment 21
The Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of the United States repealed amendment 18, which had instituted a global federal ban on alcohol. -
Amendment 22
TThe 22nd amendment states that no one can stay on more than two terms in the long term. After the two terms, the president can't be elected again. -
Amendment 23
Citizens in Washington, D.C. will vote for Electoral College members of representatives under the 23rd Amendment, but since Washington, D.C. isn't a state and the Electoral College chooses our next President, residents can't vote for both. -
Amendment 24
The 24th Amendment provides that a federal or state government cannot deprive a resident of the United States the right to vote because he or she has not paid the requisite poll tax. -
Amendment 25
The 25th Amendment addresses the President's procession and incapacitation. When the president is incapacitated, the vice president must stand-in for the time being or before a new president is chosen. -
Amendment 26
The 26th Amendment provides that people aged eighteen and over have the right to vote in presidential elections and other elections and that this right shall not be limited or denied by the United States. -
Amendment 27
Denies and enacts rules that fluctuate Congress's income salary before the start of the new term for Representatives members.
