Amendments to the Constitution

Congress OF THE United States (Amendments to the Constitution)

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

(Articles I through X are known as the Bill of Rights)

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Article the first. ….  After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

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

• Article [I] (Amendment 1 – Freedom of expression and religion)

• Article [II] (Amendment 2 – Bearing Arms)

• Article [III] (Amendment 3 – Quartering Soldiers)

• Article [IV] (Amendment 4 – Search and Seizure)

• Article [V] (Amendment 5 – Rights of Persons)

• Article [VI] (Amendment 6 – Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions)

• Article [VII] (Amendment 7 – Civil Trials)

• Article [VIII] (Amendment 8 – Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases)

• Article [IX] (Amendment 9 – Unenumerated Rights)

• Article [X] (Amendment 10 – Reserved Powers)

• [Article XI] (Amendment 11 – Suits Against States)

• [Article XII] (Amendment 12 – Election of President)

• Article XIII (Amendment 13 – Slavery and Involuntary Servitude)

• Article XIV (Amendment 14 – Rights Guaranteed: Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection)

• Article XV (Amendment 15 – Rights of Citizens to Vote)

• Article XVI (Amendment 16 – Income Tax)

• Article XVII (Amendment 17 – Popular Election of Senators)

• Article XVIII (Amendment 18 – Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors)

• Article XIX (Amendment 19 – Women’s Suffrage Rights)

• Article XX (Amendment 20 – Terms of President, Vice President, Members of Congress: Presidential Vacancy)

• Article XXI (Amendment 21 – Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment)

• Amendment XXII (Amendment 22 – Presidential Tenure)

• Amendment XXIII (Amendment 23 – Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia)

• Amendment XXIV (Amendment 24 – Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections)

• Amendment XXV (Amendment 25 – Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability)

• Amendment XXVI (Amendment 26 – Reduction of Voting Age Qualification)

• Amendment XXVII (Amendment 27 – Congressional Pay Limitation)