Warm Up Read the following sentences. Write what Bill of Right you think is covered! 1. Members of Congress can learn many different things-such as what you like and dislike about the area where you live-from letters you send them. ______ 2. Students have the right to gather at football games._____ 3. A police officer comes to your door and asks you to search your home without probable cause.____ 4. A person is convicted of murdering another human being. Later, the trial is opened back up for the same exact crime._____ 5. Miss Smith is allowed to publish a book as long as the facts are backed up with a bibliography that represents where she got her sources from. _____

Agenda, February 10 th  Warm Up  Amendments Notes

The Other Amendments 11-27

11 th Amendment -Places limits on suits against states

12 th Amendment -Changes procedure for electing President and Vice-President

13 th Amendment -Bans Slavery and forced labor

14 th Amendment -defines citizenship -guarantees due process and equal protection of the law

15 th Amendment -Allows voting to all men regardless of race

16 th Amendment -Gives the authority to levy an income tax

17 th Amendment -Establishes the direct election of Senators

18 th Amendment -Prohibition of Alcohol

19 th Amendment -Women’s right to vote

20 th Amendment -Changes the beginning of Presidential and Congressional terms. -Inauguration January 20 th

21 st Amendment -Repeals Prohibition

22 nd Amendment -Establishes a two term limit for President

23 rd Amendment -Gives residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote in national elections

24 th Amendment -Abolishes the use of poll taxes in voting

25 th Amendment -Defines the succession of the office of President The Vice President Joseph Biden Speaker of the House John Boehner President pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy Secretary of State John Kerry Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel Attorney General Eric Holder Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers (acting)

26 th Amendment -Lowers the voting age to 18 years old.

27 th Amendment -Places limits on Congressional pay raises until the beginning of the next term.

Amendment Process  2/3 of BOTH houses (to pass a proposed amendment and send it to the states’ legislatures. The states then have up to seven years to vote on the proposal. It takes 3/4 (38) states’ approval of the amendment in order for it to be added to the Constitution  Constitutional Convention to be called for by 2/3 (33) of the states’ legislatures. At such a convention, one or more amendments can be proposed and then sent to the states’ legislatures (or states’ conventions) for approval – again, 3/4 of the states’ legislatures must approve. (This method has not been used).

Amendment Activity  Read through Rules of Student Behavior  On notebook paper, write down amendments  We will vote on them!