Saturday, May 3, 2014

Amendment #27
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 twenty seventh amendment prevents any laws that changes the salaries of the senators and representatives from taking effect until the next election occurs.


The image shows a congressman with a suitcase that says pay raise on it. The congress man says that he does not have to make sacrifices. The twenty seventh amendment prevents senators and representatives from raising their own salaries.

Amendment #26
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.

The twenty sixth amendment states that you cannot be denied the right to vote if you are above the age of eighteen.
The image above shows how people who are over the age of eighteen are able to vote and cannot be denied the right to vote.
Amendment #25
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.


The twenty- fifth amendment is the presidential succession, vice presidential vacancy and presidential inability.

The video shows Alex Baldwin reading the twenty-fifth amendment in a dramatic way. The twenty-fifth amendment shows how if the president passes away while in office than the vide president will take over. If the president is forced to step down from his presidency than he will choose the appropriate president.

Amendment #24
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 any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The twenty-fourth amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes to abridge voting rolls.

The picture above shows how americans were upset about how the government used poll taxes to abridge voting rolls. Americans do not want to pay the poll tax so this created protests against the twenty-fourth amendment.

Amendment #23
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.

The twenty third amendment is the appointment of presidential electors representing Washington D.C.

In this video there is a boy rapping about what the twenty-third amendment means to him.
The video explains that presidential electors represent Washington D.C and we as america citizens have the right to a democracy.

Amendment #22
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.

The twenty second amendment states that no president shall sever more than two elected terms.

This image is a comical picture of Bill Clinton that shows how much people liked Bill Clinton. The twenty second amendment states that a president can only be in office for two elected terms.  

Amendment #21
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.

The twenty first amendment is the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The eighteenth amendment is the prohibition of alcohol.

The image above is of a man drinking alcohol with a sign behind him that say they good old days are back. The twenty first amendment repealed the eighteenth amend so the good old days of being able to buy and drink alcohol are back again.