The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution creates several constitutional rights, limiting governmental powers focusing on criminal...

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies...

Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification...

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Usually...

The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that...

The Ninth Amendment (Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in...

The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president. It replaced...

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and...

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791,...

up Fifth Amendment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fifth Amendment may refer to: Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill...

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's...

The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll...

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting...

Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination by American historian Leonard W. Levy (Oxford University Press, 1968) won the 1969 Pulitzer...

The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states...

the Twentieth Amendment, and the Twenty-fifth Amendment. The vice president is the only officeholder explicitly named in the Constitution as a presidential...

The Twenty-fifth Amendment may refer to the: Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2002 – a failed proposal to amend the Constitution of Ireland...

both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which prohibit the deprivation of "life, liberty, or property" by the federal...

The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual...

the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, the Constitution contained...

Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" Fifth Avenue Fifth column, a political term Fifth disease...

forced to resign following a controversy over his personal taxes. Under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a vice...

Under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a vice presidential vacancy is filled when the president nominates a...

Take the fifth may refer to: Invoking the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution's self-incrimination clause "Take the Fifth", a song by Spoon...

title from the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which deals with the presidential line of succession. Continuing the storyline...

Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Gold Codes are arranged in a column and printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit". The card's...

under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Court observed that the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

Three of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to declare his temporary incapacity while undergoing surgery. Byrd was the presiding...

a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. With the rise of the women's movement in the United States during the 1960s, the ERA garnered...