Twenty-first Amendment

(noun)

Amendment XXI to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended the period of Prohibition in 1933.

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Examples of Twenty-first Amendment in the following topics:

  • The 21st Amendment

    • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • The 26th Amendment

    • The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution barred the states or federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.
    • Eisenhower, in his 1954 State of the Union address, became the first president to publicly state his support for prohibiting age-based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • Incorporation Doctrine

    • The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
    • The first instance of incorporation include the case Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad v.
    • Despite his opinion, in the following twenty-five years, the Supreme Court employed a doctrine of selective incorporation that succeeded in extending to the States almost of all of the protections in the Bill of Rights, as well as other, unenumerated rights.
    • All of the provisions of Amendment I and Amendment II have been incorporated against the state, while the Third Amendment has not yet been incorporated (the Third Amendment refers to the prohibition on quartering of soldiers in civilian homes).
    • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.

  • The 27th Amendment

    • The Twenty-seventh Amendment, adopted in 1992, prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives.
    • Anderson, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Twenty-seventh Amendment does not affect annual COLAs.
    • Clinton, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that receiving such a COLA does not grant members of the Congress standing in federal court to challenge that COLA; the Supreme Court did not hear either case and so has never ruled on this amendment's effect on COLAs.
    • Certification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Pg 1 of 3.

  • The Twenty-Seven Amendments of the U.S. Constitution

    • The twenty-seven amendments serve two purposes: to protect the liberties of the people and to change original codes from the constitution.
    • There are 27 amendments to the constitution, the first 10 being the Bill of Rights .
    • The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
    • While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been held to apply to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.
    • The Bill of Rights are the first 10 of 27 amendements to the Constitution, and serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property.

  • The 23rd Amendment

    • The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.
    • The 23rd Amendment would have been repealed by the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, which proposed to give the District full representation in the United States Congress, full representation in the Electoral College system, and full participation in the process by which the U.S.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • State the right extended to residents of the District of Columbia by the 23rd Amendment

  • The First Amendment

    • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
    • State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment

  • The 24th Amendment

    • The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • Describe the particular restriction on voting the 24th Amendment made illegal

  • The 22nd Amendment

    • The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President.
    • Since the amendment's ratification, Dwight D.

  • The First Amendment

    • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and protects American civil liberties.
    • Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress.
    • New York (1925), the Supreme Court has applied the First Amendment to each state.
    • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.
    • The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees Americans the right to a free press.