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.

Amendment #20

Section 1.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January, of the years in which 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 in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Section 3.
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If 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 Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall 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 case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.

Section 5.
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th 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-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

Amendment twenty set the terms of the President, Vice President and Congress.

The twentieth amendment states the terms of the president, vice president, and congress. This video states the limits on how long they can be in office and how many times they can run. 

Amendment #19

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.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The nineteenth amendment states that no person shall be deprived the right to vote based on their sex.

The image above is a woman on a mailing stamp. This images shows how the nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote and no person shall be deprived the right to vote based on their sex.

Amendment #18

Section 1.
After one year from the ratification of this article 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 appropriate legislation.

Section 3.
This 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.

The eighteenth amendment is start of the prohibition of alcohol.

The image above shows the effects that the prohibition had on people when the eighteenth amendment came to pass. The prohibition prevent people from drinking and selling alcohol so americans were very upset and they began to protest.

Amendment #17

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.

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of 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.

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.

The seventeenth amendment is about the popular election of senators.

The video shows that before the seventeenth amendment, state legislators were the ones that elected people on the senate. Some state legislators voted for senators because of their own personal interests. The seventeenth amendment protects popular election of senators.

Amendment #16
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.

The sixteenth amendment states that congress can tax income directly.

The image above is a comical cartoon that shows how a man is taking a collection for the tax that he has to pay for how much money that he makes. The cartoon is comical because he has a job but yet he is walking around his office asking for money like he is poor.

Amendment #15

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 the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The fifteenth amendment states that there will be no denying the right to peoples votes because of their race, color or servitude.

The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment all had do with freeing of the slaves. The image above shows the progressing of when slaves were set free and how the amendment began to try to make the united states equal for ever man. The fifteenth amendment gives the right for ever man to vote and there will be no denying by the states because of someones race, color, or servitude.

Amendment #14

Section 1.
All persons born 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 life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2.
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 Vice-President 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 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-one years of age in such State.

Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member 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-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4.
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 void.

Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the united states. It forbids any state to deny any person life, liberty or property without due process of law or to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws. 

The fourteenth amendment is a reconstruction amendment because there was a flaw in the constituion for slaves. This amendment helped slaves because african americans were believed not to be citizens of the states that they lived in.

Amendment #13

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.

The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery.

This video shows how hard it was for slaves in the 1600's. The thirteenth amendment was a start to the freeing of slaves. The slaves were set free but many of the slaves did not know what to do or how to provide for their families now that they were set free from working against their own free will.

Amendment #12

The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall 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 Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the 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, then 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, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. [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 following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. --]* The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if 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, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number 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 eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

The twelfth amendment requires separate electoral ballots for the President and the Vice President  

A teacher raps in the video about how the president and the vice president are separated in the electoral ballots. This amendment better represents the votes of individuals.

Amendment #11
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, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

The eleventh amendment is about law suits against the states.

The states believed that they were protected against law suits but in the video it explains how there was a law suit against the states and the state ended up loosing. The eleventh amendment protects states against law suits.

Amendment #10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The tenth  amendment  gives power to the states  so that  the federal government  can't control what decisions that the states make.

Amendment #9
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The ninth amendment states that other people have other rights that aren't listed in the constitution.

In this video these two young people created a rap about the ninth amendment. They say that there is more rights that are given to the people in American than just what is stated in the constitution and I think that they had to make this amendment because there are always ways around the amendments.

Amendment #8

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

This video states that no bail shall be set higher than the crime that is being committed and it has to be a reasonable price for how much money that the accused defendant makes in their income . 

Amendment #7
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 re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

The seventh amendment gives the right to have a jury trial in civil cases.

In this video it explains how trials used to be decided by one judge and now you have the right to a full jury. This benefits the person who is accused and they will get a more fair trial.

Amendment #6
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 shall have 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 defence.

The sixth amendment gives the rights to a speedy trial.

This video shows that any person that is accused of a crime has the right to a speedy trial. This videos shows that our justice system is always not correct and the are some inmates that stay in prison for long periods of  time because they get in more trouble from when they started.

Amendment #5
No person shall be held to answer for a 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 process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

The fifth amendment explains the rights of the criminally accused.

In this video the musician states that it better to plead the fifth amendment and stay silent than to admit to the crimes until you are proven guilty.

Amendment #4

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, 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.

The fourth amendment protects citizens agains unreasonable search and seizure. 

In this video it explains that probable cause is not involved in the fourth amendment and it violates Americans rights. I think that in many cases Americans rights to the fourth amendment are being violated by the government.

Amendment #3
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.

The third amendment states that no one person may be forced to housed soldiers.

In this video two high school students put a spin on a popular country song. They chose to make this song about the third amendment because it says "baby lock your door and turn the lights down low". I believe the chose this song because no one person has to  quarter troops and it was a unique  way to look at the third amendment.

Amendment #2
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.

In the second amendment people the right to bear arms.

This video is comical and the bear arms are a a funny way to look at the second amendment. What I I took from this video is that the second amendment gives Americans the right to conceal and carry weapons to defend themselves in instances where they are being harmed.

Amendment #1
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.

In the first amendment it explains that you have freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.  In this video it explains how you have the right to be yourself and express what we've background you come from.