List
of amendments to the United States Constitution 
This is a complete list of all the ratified and unratified amendments to the United States Constitution which have received the approval of the United States Congress. Twenty-seven amendments have been ratified since the original signing of the Constitution, the first ten of which are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The procedure for amending the Constitution is governed by Article V of the original text. There have been many other proposals for amendments to the United States Constitution introduced in Congress, but not submitted to the states.
| # | Amendments |
Proposal date | Enactment date | Full text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Protects the freedom of religion, speech,
and the
press, as well as the right to assemble and petition
the government |
September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 2nd | Protects the right
to keep and bear arms |
September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 3rd | Prohibits the forced quartering of
soldiers |
September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 4th | Prohibits unreasonable searches
and seizures and sets out requirements for search
warrants based on probable
cause |
September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 5th | Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy | September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 6th | Protects the right to a fair and speedy public trial
by jury, including the rights to be notified of the accusations,
to confront
the accuser, to obtain
witnesses and to retain counsel |
September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 7th | Provides
for the right to trial
by jury in certain civil
cases, according to common law |
September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text |
| 8th | September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text | |
| 9th | September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text | |
| 10th | September 25, 1789 | December 15, 1791 | Full text | |
| 11th | Immunity of states from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners
not living within the state borders. Lays the foundation for sovereign
immunity |
March 4, 1794 | February 7, 1795 | Full text |
| 12th | Revises presidential
election procedures |
December 9, 1803 | June 15, 1804 | Full text |
| 13th | Abolishes slavery and involuntary
servitude, except as punishment for a crime |
January 31, 1865 | December 6, 1865 | Full text |
| 14th | Defines citizenship and
deals with post–Civil
War issues |
June 13, 1866 | July 9, 1868 | Full text |
| 15th | Prohibits the denial of suffrage based
on race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
February 26, 1869 | February 3, 1870 | Full text |
| 16th | Allows the federal government to collect income
tax |
July 12, 1909 | February 3, 1913 | Full text |
| 17th | Allows senators to
be directly elected |
May 13, 1912 | April 8, 1913 | Full text |
| 18th | Establishes Prohibition
of alcohol (Repealed by Twenty-first
Amendment) |
December 18, 1917 | January 16, 1919 | Full text |
| 19th | Allows for women's
suffrage |
June 4, 1919 | August 18, 1920 | Full text |
| 20th | Fixes
the dates of term commencements for Congress (January 3) and the
President (January 20); known as the "lame
duck amendment" |
March 2, 1932 | January 23, 1933 | Full text |
| 21st | Repeals the Eighteenth
Amendment |
February 20, 1933 | December 5, 1933 | Full text |
| 22nd | Limits the president to two terms, or a maximum of 10 years (i.e.,
if a Vice President serves not more than one half of a President's term,
he can be elected to a further two terms) |
March 24, 1947 | February 27, 1951 | Full text |
| 23rd | Provides for representation of Washington,
D.C. in the Electoral
College |
June 16, 1960 | March 29, 1961 | Full text |
| 24th | Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of poll
taxes |
September 14, 1962 | January 23, 1964 | Full text |
| 25th | Codifies the Tyler
Precedent; defines the process of presidential succession |
July 6, 1965 | February 10, 1967 | Full text |
| 26th | Establishes 18 as the national voting age |
March 23, 1971 | July 1, 1971 | Full text |
| 27th | Prevents laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until
the beginning of the next session of Congress |
September 25, 1789 | May 7, 1992 | Full text |