What Right Does the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th, & 26th Amendment Guarantee?

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I think the most important amendement we could possibly ever have would be a balanced budget amendment. Politicians can't spend more money than they take in in taxes - PERIOD! That means any new bill has to come with new funding (a tax!) attached to it, just like with City government. If the people don't want to pay the tax, it must not be important enough! The huge budget (over a trillion dollars a year now!) and national debt are the cause of all of our problems. And a broke government can't function or provide services to its people

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How did the 13th,14th,and 15th amendments expand democracy?

13th - Outlawed slavery, expect as a punishment (prison)

14th - Defined what a citizen is. Basically, if you were born on US soil, you are a US citizen. This made all black people at the time citizens as well as a bunch of Mexican and native Americans

15th - Allowed minority MEN to vote. Woman wont be able to vote for another 50 years when the 19th amendment is passed in 1920

These expanded democracy because they extended rights to all people in the US, not just white, Anglo-Saxon men.

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Help with the 15th amendment?

The 15th Amendment is not the only amendment that deals with voting rights. The 19th Amendment expanded voting rights to women; the 26th Amendment extended voting rights to 18- to 20-year-olds; and the 24th Amendment eliminated poll taxes specifically in regards to voting in federal elections.

And the Supreme Court has negated the importance of enacting all of those amendments (15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th) by interpreting the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as being a general guarantee of equal voting rights (except in the case of 18- to 20-year-olds).

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What are some reasons why the 19th amendment affected the growth of the Federal Government?

AMENDMENT XIX.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Think about how many were elevated from 2nd class citizen to 1st class citizen. How many more had a voice in the workings of the government. How many more the government had to begin working for in order to get their vote. How many more the government had to keep track of for a number of reasons.

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What 3 amendments have had the greatest impact on the U.S.?

I would say yes, definitely the first or any of the Bill of Rights, really. They really set down our natural liberties and have protected people for years. Also, the 13th abolished slavery. That is a good thing because we now realize how wrong it is to hold people against their will based on race. The 15th and 19th gave the right to vote to other races and women, respectively. The 22nd set the rules for electing a President and the number of times he/she can be elected into office. I hope this helped!

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women got the right to vote in what year & what was the amendment?

As it turns out, some women had the right the vote from the year 1784, the year America won the Revolution.

They had it from the beginning in New Jersey, and had it taken away in 1815. There was a seriously ethically questionable election in New Jersey, and the Governor at the time decided the best way to hide it was to scapegoat women voters. They took away their right to vote.

In 1920, Congress passed the Amendment (19th) that gave women the right to vote all over the country.

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Is there anything at all you would cut out of this list of the 27 amendments to the US constitution?

"3. No military in your home except in war time "

-wow? maybe you had better find a better source than wikianswers.

cut out of this list of the 27 amendments to the US constitution?

15. All men get the right to vote - including ex-slaves

19. Women get the right to vote

Only property owners should have the right to vote and you must be a citizen to own property. There are way too many non property owners voting to raise taxes on property owners. This was never the intention.

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Do you realize it was Progressives that passed the 3 worst Constitutional Amendments in American History?

16th - I don't like paying taxes either, but I do like a robust military, a safe transportation and food system, federal research in disease and science and oversite of the environment. We'll have to pay for it somehow.

17th - This gives the selection of the members of the Senate to the vote of the people rather than the state legislator or governor. Anytime you difuse power, you reduce corruption. This is a very good amendment.

18th - You have me there! It was a dumb idea.

Two out of three were excellent. In support of the Progressives, I'll take it.

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picture representing the ninth amendment?

Since the Ninth Amendment says that the previous eight Amendments are not the only rights of the citizenry, but there might be other possible rights, take a picture of an 18 year old black girl.

Since the government passed other rights later on, she would be a perfect example of the other rights passed later on, like the 13th Amendment (abolition of slavery), 15th Amendment (laws based on race), 19th Amendment (women's right to vote), and the 26th Amendment (voting rights at 18 years old). Since none of those rights were in the Bill of Rights, it would be a perfect example of the other rights.

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Confused over the Equal Rights Amendment! It is not part of the Constitution?! Please help!?

It was passed in DC and submitted to the states. It originally had a seven year limitation to achieve the 75% of states. At the end of that time, only 35 states had ratified it and Congress extended the deadline for another three years. Proponents could not get three more states to ratify it and after a 10 year period, the issue died.

The 19th amendment you refer to was enacted in 1920. That amendment gave women the right to vote. Some states had allowed women to vote, but most did not. The 19th amendment required all states to allow women to vote. That's completely different from the ERA

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If there was never a Second Amendment, how would American history be different than it is today?

The enslavement famous our tendency to think of that we are greater advantageous to absolutely everyone else. for a protracted time, one argument for slavery replaced into that Africans weren't particularly human, so it replaced into no crime to enslave them, any greater than it particularly is a criminal offense to maintain a draft horse. We nonetheless have a tiny little bit of that in the time of our psyche. freeing them appealed to the liberty-loving area of our psyche, to boot as our tendency to root for the underdog and to prefer to help the oppressed

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How did women react to the Reconstruction amendments (US Reconstruction era)?

The question is a little too broad, but I think I know what you're getting at. Activist women who had fought for "*****" rights were angry because they were left out of the amendments.

Reconstruction amendments freed slaves, and even made them citizens. But women were not given the right to vote, and there was no constitutional amendment passed stating that the government cannot discriminate based on gender.

The 19th Amendment (granting women the right to vote) wasn't ratified until 1920, over 50 years after the civil war ended. And there is not one saying that the government cannot discriminate based on gender.

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Why was the 13th Amendment the most important amendment in the Constitution?

Which amendment is the most important is extremely subjective. There are 27 amendments to choose from each one of serious importance and historical significance. I'm sure many women would assert that the 19th amendment is the most important. Many teetotalers probably think the 18th was the most important while a cadre of alcoholics probably thinks that the 21st is the most important.

Personally I put the 13th Amendment in a distant third behind the 1st and 21st amendments because I love to talk all sorts of smack while I'm putting back some brews. LOL

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What year were women allowed to vote inthe U.S?

It was in 1920 ,, Wow that seems so long ago, It was about the same time they decided to start getting bob- hair cuts, which was a no no.. they also started smoking in public. I think they even threw a few bra's out the windows to show men, they did have a voice, and didn't have to sit at home making homemade biscuits and churning milk for butter..,, Yum, I getting hungry biscuits, with ribbon cane or sorghum syrup.

.. as most like taking medicine ha ha .

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Which Admendment impacts America more, 18th or 19th?

19th. Because the 18th (Prohibition), was repealed a long time ago. The Federal govt didn't have much choice, but to pass the 21st amendment which says the exact opposite of the 18th, which canceled the18th out.

However, the 18th had a much bigger historical impact on our country than MOST of the other amendments. Even today it has a huge impact on society. When Obama tried to take our guns away, people remembered what happened during Prohibition, they learned a lot from it and people know all the problems and protests, revolution, etc would happen again, only worse if they took our guns!

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I need to write a women's rights speech, 3-5 minutes long, how do i start to outline it?

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what and when was last amendment to usa constitution made?

The 27th Amendment to the Constitution of the USA was officially certified on 19 May 1992 and concerned the payments made to Congress members. It says:

"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."

In other words, Congress members cannot vote themselves an increase in payment without first facing an election to ensure their membership. This Amendment was first proposed 25 September 1789 and it took over 200 years for it to receive ratification by all the States.

OK?

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what was the purposse of the 19 ammendment ?

Many states had already granted women and men equal voting rights. The 19th amendment made this a national policy, stating that all states must grant men and women equal voting rights.

It doesn't actually grant women (or men) any right to vote. I simply states that voting rights may not discriminate based on sex.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." ------

What kinds of issues have been addressed by Amendments 11 27?

11. Immunity of states to foreign suits.

12. Revision of presidential election procedures.

13. Abolition of slavery

14. Citizenship, state due process, state equal protection, applies to the Bill of rights to

the States.

15. Racial suffrage

16. Federal Income Tax

17. Direct election to the United States Senate.

18. Prohibition of alcohol.

19. Women's suffrage

20. Term Commencement for congress (January 3) and President (January 20).

21. Repeal of 18th amendment, state and local Prohibition permitted.

22. Limits the President to 2 terms.

23. Representation of Washington, Dc in the electoral college.

24. Prohibition of poll taxes

25. Presidential disabilities.

26. Voting age nationally established as age 18

27. Variance of Congressional compensation.

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Isn't banning gay marriage in the US unconstitutional according to 1st Amendment religious freedom?

Hmm. I don't think so.

The thing is, while the First Amendment does ban legislating against religious beliefs and opinions, it has been ruled that it doesn't prohibit legislating against actions. Otherwise, it would be unconstitutional to ban things like polygamy, human sacrifice, and even slavery.

Reynolds v. United States in the 19th Century dealt with this issue. Reynolds was using the First Amendment as part of his defense in the trial.

So, while it would be nice for this to be the case, unfortunately it's not unconstitutional to ban gay marriage.