Amendment 27

Amendment XXVII

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

The final amendment deals with pay raises or decreases for members of Congress. Changes to Congressional pay must take effect after the next term of office for the representatives. This means that another election would have had to occur before the pay raises can take effect.

This picture pokes fun at congress men and how greedy they are known for being.

This picture is also making fun of how congressmen are making so much money and they make no sacrifices.

Amendment 26

Amendment XXVI

Section 1.
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.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

This amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right of US citizens, eighteen years of age or older, to vote on account of age.


A younger group of people got the right to vote after the 26th amendment was passed

The youth should vote so that their voice can be heard.

Amendment 25

Amendment XXV

Section 1.
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President 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 duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

This Amendment basically just talks about what happens if the president dies while in office.The vice president will of course take over if that is the case.



This picture shows that the list of successors of a president is maybe unreasonably wrong.
When President Kennedy was assassinated he was then replaced by Vice President Johnson. 

Amendment 24

Amendment XXIV

Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, 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 poll tax or other tax.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

This amendment was important to the Civil Rights Movement because it ended the mandatory poll taxes that kept many African Americans from voting. Poll taxes effectively kept African Americans from having any political power, especially in the South. 



Several people protested against poll taxes not only African Americans.

In this election there were 2-6 hour waits to vote. According to Rachel Maddow this is a poll tax, in which our country worked too hard to get rid of. It is not cash that they have to pay, but it is time.

amendment 23

Amendment XXIII

Section 1.
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President 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 Vice President, 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.

This amendment gives the residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College.

                  

This is an entertaining video that is very informative about the 23rd amendment.

            

Maryland was forced to pay taxes but was not allowed the right to vote.

Amendment 22

Amendment XXII

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 person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, 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 as 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-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

This amendment limits the president to only two 4 year terms in office. 














This photo is not only showing Obama has a commonly known rapper known as "2 chains" but also showing that he was elected for his 2nd and final term as a president.

Amendment 21

Amendment XXI

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.


This amendment ended Prohibition in the United States. Prohibition was instituted in the 18th Amendment. The 21st amendment was an admission of the terrible failure of prohibition.



This photo shows how upset people were with the 18th amendment and the prohibition.

People celebrated the repeal of the 18th amendment and people everywhere finally could drink legally after 13 years.