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The 27 Amendments to the US Constitution

Amendment 1: Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition.
Amendment 2: Freedom of Milita and to bear arms.
Amendment 3: Quartering Soldiers in a person's house.
Amendment 4: Security from unwarranted search and seizure.
Amendment 5: Freedom for Life, Liberty and Property.
Amendment 6: Criminal cases and rights of accused persons.
Amendment 7: Common law and trial by jury in civil cases.
Amendment 8: Bail, excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment.
Amendment 9: Other rights of the people.
Amendment 10: Powers reserved to the states.
Amendment 11: Restriction of Judicial power.
Amendment 12: Presidential Electors.
Amendment 13: Abolition of slavery.
Amendment 14: Citizenship, Congressional apportionment, insurrection, public debt.
Amendment 15: Right to vote guarenteed regardless of race.
Amendment 16: Income Tax.
Amendment 17: Senators -- How elected and how vacancies are filled.
Amendment 18: National alcohol prohibition.
Amendment 19: Women's right to vote guarenteed.
Amendment 20: Change of Inaugral date, expiration of terms, times for congress to assemble.
Amendment 21: Repeal of alcohol prohibition.
Amendment 22: Presidents limited to serving two terms.
Amendment 23: Appointment of electors for the District of Columbia.
Amendment 24: Elimination of poll tax or other taxes as a requirement for voting.
Amendment 25: Presidential Succession.
Amendment 26: Right to vote for 18, 19 and 20 year olds.
Amendment 27: Congressional pay raises.

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Amendments 21 to the U.S. Constitution

Short Summary: Repeal of alcohol prohibition

Amendments 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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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.