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Show 4 t Pgqe 16, . UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. September 16. 1987 FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS AMENDMENT The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Rights in Criminal Cases and Protection A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. of Property AMENDMENT 3 Quartering of Soldiers No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. AMENDMENT 11 - Lawsuits Against States The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, pr by citizens or f. .v; i,j. subjects of any foreign state.- . - AMENDMENT 12 Election of the President and Vice-presid- 1801 (Ratified The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and one of whom, at least, snail not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as and they shall mane distinct lists of all persons voted for as president, and of all persons voted for as and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of tne government of the United States, directed to the president of the Senate. The president of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, tnen from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as president, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president. But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, tne representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirof the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choke, And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a president, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next followshaft act as president, as in ing, then the the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president. The person having the greatest number if of votes as shall be the such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, tne a quorum for Senate shall choose the of the whole the purpose shall consist of two-thirimber of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be of the United States. eligible to that of nt nt AMENDMENT 13 Abolition of Slavery (Ratified 1865) Section 1. 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. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. AMENDMENT 14 Ovit Rights (Ratified , AMENDMENT 16 1868) Section 1. Citizenship defined; citizens' privileges. All persons bom or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of Bile, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of tne laws. Section 2. Apportionment of Representatives. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for president and of the United States, representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any nt Income Tax (Ratified 1913) The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. AMENDMENT 17 Direct Election of Senators (Ratified 1913) Section 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. Section 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority erf such state shall issue writs or election to fill such vacancies, provided that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election, as the legislature may direct. Section 3. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. AMENDMENT 18 Prohibition (Ratified Amendment 21) 1919; repealed 1933, by Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this artkle, the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by priate legislation. ion 3. inis article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress. Printed As A Public Service By Rights Retained by the People The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the AMENDMENT 10 Rights in Civil Suits Powers Reserved to States or People In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor v prohibited by it to the states,' are pesejrved to the states respectively, or to the people. AMENDMENT 19 Womens Suffrage (Ratified 1920) Section 1. 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. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. . , ;i AMENDMENT 20 Pffsidential and Congressional Terms (Ratified 1933) Section 1. The terms of the president and shall end at noon on tne twentieth day of January, and the terms of senators and representatives at noon on the third day of January, of the years in whkh such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once d such me vice-preside- nt day o appoint a differer Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the president, the president elect dull have elect shall become president. If died, the a president shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the president elect shall have failed to qualify, then the elect shall act as president until a president snail have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a president elect nor a elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as president, or the manner in which one who is to act snail be selected, and such person shall act shall accordingly until a president or have qualified. Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a president whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the use of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the fifteenth day of October following the ratification of this article. Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourtof the several states within seven years from the date of its submission. nt vice-preside- nt nt Section 1. 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. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. AMENDMENT 9 AMENDMENT 7 of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty --one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-on- e years of age in such state. Section 3. Loss if privileges.. No person. shall be .a senator or representative in Congress, or elector ol or hold any office, civil or president and military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of or as an offerer of the United States, or as a of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirof each house, remove such disability. Section 4. Public debt. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and vend. Section 5. Tne Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Suffrage (Ratified 1870) not be required, nor fines excessive imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Excessive bail shall people. capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due nt Prohibited In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shallhave been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. No person shall be held to answer for a AMENDMENT 15 Excessive Bail, Fines, and Punishments Rights of an Accused Person AMENDMENT 5 Right to Keep and Bear Arms AMENDMENTS AMENDMENT 6 against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. AMENDMENT 2 law. compensation. Search and Arrest Warrants Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press; of Assembly Petition according to the rules of the common process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just AMENDMENT 4 I nt AMENDMENT 21 Repeal of Prohibition (Ratified 1933) Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any state, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress. AMENDMENT 22 President Limited to Two Terms (Ratified 1951) Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other rerson was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of when this article was proposed by the and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of president, or acting as president during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of president or acting president during the remainder of such term. section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourtof the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by tKe Congress. Kdent " The Uintah Basin STANDARD AMENDMENT 23 Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia (Ratified I960 Section 1. The district constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of president and equal to. the whole number of senators and representatives in Congress to which the district would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of president and to be electors appointed By a state; and they shall meet in the district and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. vice-preside-nt AMENDMENT 24 Voting Rights Protected (Ratified I960 Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for president or for electors for president or or for senator or representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay nt, nt, any poll tax or other tax. Sectioi 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this artkle by appropriate legislation. AMENDMENT 25 Presidential Vacancies (Ratified 1967) Section 1. In case of the removal of the president from office or of his death or resignation, the shall become president. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the nflfof of the the president shall nominate a who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress. Section 3. Whenever the president transmits to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and shall be discharged by the as acting president. Section 4. Whenever the and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive or of such other body as Congress may by departments law provide, transmit to the president of pro the Senate and the speaker of the tempore House of Representatives their written declaration that the president is unable to discharge the powers and t.au. of his office, the shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as actinc president. Thereafter, when the president transmits to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives his mitten declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive nflnarfmaill nv rtf enk rdlua nt nt nt vice-preside- nt vice-preside-nt nt of Representatives their written Jedmtion tiuTtte Pjesident is unable to discharge the powers and duties his office. Thereupon Congress shall ifari issue, assembling within forty-eighours for tlut purpose if not in session. If the e twenty-ondays after receipt of thelitter Xtt2 declaration, or, if Congress is not in a. ht twenty-on- e days after Congress assemble, determines by two-thirhouses that the president is unable to proven and duties of his office, the continue to discharee the same ds S requiredE hmk disdiarJ vice-presid-ed -h asMErAMENDMENT Suffrage for Eighteen-Year-OI- wssa 26 ds (Ratified Section 1. The right of citizens of the mi) who of re older, to votesfflS by artew jra & a. i " |