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===What if you lived in a country where women and blacks didn't have the right to vote, and slaves worked the fields unpaid? If you lived in the 1800s, this is what you would see, but thanks to amendments 11- 27, none of us have to live with that. The twelveth Amendment required Presidents and Vice Presidents to be voted for together, rather than the winner of the election becoming president and the second place winner becoming vice president. this amendment was added because in 1796 and 1800 there was a tie, and they had to re vote for president multiple times. it was passed by congress in 1804 and had been in affect ever since.===

===After the civial war, Americans passed a set of three amendments. amendments 13, 14,and 15 known as the civial war amendments. Amendement 13: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. //Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.// My Version: Slavery or any other obligatory bondage, except for crime punishment that the person has comitted in the USA, or any place subject to their administration.===

===The fourteenth amendment was passed in 1868 and helped to protect the rights of the freed slaves. It stated that everyone who was born in the United States, //including// African-Americans, has the same rights as all other Americans. It also prohibited any state from making or enforcing laws that took away or violated a citizens civil rights; but even after the Fourteenth Amendment passed, many African-Americans still didn’t have all the rights Whites had, like voting. Many Africans didn't get the chance to vote because the people didn't want them to have that kind of power. Voting provided power to change things. These Whites said that Blacks weren’t smart enough to vote and would make the wrong decision. They purposely didn't tell them when to vote or where.===

===Amendement 15: 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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. //Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February 3, 1870.// My Version: It does not matter what race you are, you can still vote.===

===The nineteenth amendment prohibited any state and the federal government to deny a citizen the right to vote because of their sex, which menat that women finally had the right to vote. It was ratified August 18, 1920. This amendment was voted on twice, and passed all three houses by a narrow margin. After 36 states ratified it, Tennesse being the 36th, it was added to the U.S constition. ===

===Amendement 26: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. //Passed by Congress March 23, 1971. Ratified July 1, 1971.// My Version: You have the right to vote if you are 18 or older.===

Amendment 22 No person can ever be elected to office or as president more than twice. That means they also can only have two year terms. When this article was created it did not affect the people in office at that time. This article will not work unless it has been ratified as an amendment on to the constitution by the legislature and ¾’s of the several states. Amendment 23 Amendment 23 was passed by congress June 16, 1960 Ratified: March 29, 1961 Section 1: The number of electors of president and vice president are equal to the whole number of senators and representatives in congress so the district would be entitled if it were a state. Even the smallest and the least populous states should be considered in electing the president and the vice president. They should also have some kind of duties when electing the vice president. The Congress will have power to enforce the article to the legislature.

Amendment 27 Proposed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May 7, 1992. This amendment was ratified by 6 states and the other 8 states rejected it. The law is that there should be no law that is put into affect until an election of the representatives.

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