List of amendments to the United States Constitution Totally Explained

This is a complete list of all ratified and unratified amendments to the United States Constitution which have received the approval of the Congress. The procedure for amending the Constitution is governed by Article V of the original text. There have been proposals for amendments to the United States Constitution for amendments introduced in Congress, but not submitted to the states.

Ratified amendments

There are currently twenty-seven articles of amendment to the United States Constitution. The first ten of these were ratified simultaneously and are known as the "Bill of Rights".

#	Amendments	Proposal date	Enactment date
1st	Freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly	September 25 1789	December 15 1791
2nd	Right to bear arms	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
3rd	Quartering soldiers in private houses	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
4th	Searches and seizures; warrants	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
5th	Due process; Self-incrimination	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
6th	Rights of the accused	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
7th	Right to trial by jury in civil cases	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
8th	Excessive bail & fines; cruel & unusual punishment	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
9th	Unenumerated rights (not listed rights) retained by the people	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
10th	Powers reserved to the states or to the people	September 25 1789	December 15 1791^[1]
11th	Immunity of states to foreign suits	March 4 1794	February 7 1795
12th	Revision of presidential election procedures	December 9 1803	June 15 1804
13th	Abolition of slavery	January 31 1865	December 6 1865
14th	Citizenship, state due process, state equal protection, applies Bill of Rights to the States	June 13 1866	July 9 1868
15th	Racial suffrage	February 26 1869	February 3 1870
16th	Federal income tax	July 12 1909	February 3 1913
17th	Direct election to the United States Senate	May 13 1912	April 8 1913
18th	Prohibition of alcohol (Repealed by 21st amendment)	December 18 1917	January 16 1919
19th	Women's suffrage	June 4 1919	August 18 1920
20th	Term Commencement for congress (January 3) and president (January 20)	March 2 1932	January 23 1933
21st	Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment; state and local prohibition permitted	February 20 1933	December 5 1933
22nd	Limits the president to two terms	March 24 1947	February 27 1951
23rd	Representation of Washington, D.C. in Electoral College	June 16 1960	March 29 1961
24th	Prohibition of poll taxes	September 14 1962	January 23 1964
25th	Presidential disabilities	July 6 1965	February 23 1967
26th	Voting age lowered to 18 (see suffrage)	March 23 1971	July 1 1971
27th	Variance of congressional compensation^[1]	September 25 1789	May 7 1992

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