what is the history on the eighteenth amendment?
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During the Progressive Movement, people wanted to make the moral standard of the United States a bit better. One way to do that was using Prohibition, or to stop the selling and/or manufacturing of alcohol or other intoxicating substance.
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Congress passed the Amendment on July 12, 1909, and it was ratified on February 3, 1913 (1,302 days)\n\nThere is a movement by some who claim that the bill was not "legally ratified" for various reasons. Bill Benson is the most prominent of these. However, these claims have been universally rejected in the court of law.
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try this site\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
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What is referred to as the Bill of Rights are the first Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.  They are actually the ten “ratified amendments in that 12 were proposed to the legislatures of the then several States 25 17 September 1789.  Ratification was completed 15 December 1791.\n\nThis “Bill of Rights” evolved from an agreement during the constitutional convention to reach the votes required to send the proposed constitution to the then congress functioning under the Articles of Confederation.  The draft of proposed 12 amendments were written primarily by James Madison who was heavily influenced by the Virginia List of Rights.  \n\nThey differ from lists of rights in “other” governmental jurisdictions (as parts of other constitutions) which are generally lists of specific rights.  The U.S. Bill of rights is basically a list things that they federal government is excluded from doing (the first 8 articles).  The last two articles are declarations of basic truths.\n\nThere are 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution (inclusive of the ten in the Bill of Rights).  However, there has been a number of amendments proposed (in total I believe 36) of which only the 27 have been ratified.\n\nAmendments must follow the Constitutional amendment process as detailed in Article 5 of the Constitution.  Beginning with the 18th Amendment Congress has taken up the practice of noting a time limit for ratification by the States.  I believe that this was held valid in Coleman v. Miller [1939]\n\nFollowing is my working list of the Amendments that I use on a daily basis.  One note of import, you will notice that amendment 2 is different from what is normally printed in that is has a single comma as opposed to the typical 3 commas.  My version is the version which was proposed to the several States and ratified.  Its meaning (due to the different punctuation) is quite different.  My reference on this is the Library of Congress.\n\nAmendment I - Religion, Speech, Assembly, and Politics\nCongress 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.\n\nAmendment II - Militia and the Right to Bear Arms\nA 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.\n\nAmendment III - Quartering of Soldiers\nNo 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.\n\nAmendment IV - Searches and Seizures\nThe 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.\n\nAmendment V - Grand Juries, Self-Incrimination, Double Jeopardy, Due Process, and Eminent Domain\nNo 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.\n\nAmendment VI - Criminal Court Procedures\nIn 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 distric
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1787, ratified in 1788. the declaration of independence was written in 1776.
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The 21st amendment was ratified in December 1993 and it repealed the 18th amendment.   I am a not aware of it having another name, but it end what is commonly called the Prohibition Era.
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14th. Amendment \nto the U.S. Constitution \n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSection 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. \n\nSection 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,(See Note 15) 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. \n\nSection 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. \n\nSection 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. \n\nSection 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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Amendment II - Right to bear arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note\n\nA 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.\n\nAlso found this...\nU.S. Constitution, Amendment II \n(also known as the Second Amendment)\n\nA 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.\n\nOne Comma or Three?\n\nThe Final (ratified) version had only one comma according to the Library of Congress and Government Printing Office.
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The Bill of Rights is the first X Amendments to the constituition.\n\n(If that's alll you wanted to know, stop here. :o)\n\n They were added because the Antifederalists in Virginia and New York would not ratify the constitution. It was important that they did because Virginia was the largest  state at the time, and if New York didn't ratify, the U.S. would be geographically split. Thus, in order to gain the ratification of those two states, they added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
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1919: 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act were passed that year. Some say, however, that Prohibition officially began the following year, 1920, when the 18th Amendment went into effect.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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The 13th Amendment.  Here it is:\n\n\nAmendment XIII\nSection 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. \n\n\nSection 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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The constitution was ratified in 1787.
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Amendment VIII (the Eighth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the U.S. Bill of Rights, prohibits excessive bail or fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment. The phrases employed are taken from the English Bill of Rights.
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I believe it was outlawed in the 24th amendment to the United States Constitution.\n\nCheck here: \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Nineteenth Amendment \nPassed by Congress June 4, 1919.  \nRatified August 18, 1920.
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There are 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first ten are known as the Bill of Rights. The last one was added in 1992