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  • /us/const/amendment/21
    Amendment XXI

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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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

  • /us/const/amendment/18
    Amendment XVIII

    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

  • /us/const/amendment/20
    Amendment XX

    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

  • /us/const/amendment/17
    Amendment XVII

    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

  • /us/const/amendment/22
    Amendment XXII

    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

  • /us/const/amendment/23
    Amendment XXIII

    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

  • /us/const/amendment/12
    Amendment XII

    The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote

  • /us/const/amendment/13
    Amendment XIII

    Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a

  • /us/const/amendment/14
    Amendment XIV

    Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United

  • /us/const/amendment/15
    Amendment XV

    Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States

  • /us/const/amendment/16
    Amendment XVI

    The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes

  • /us/const/amendment/19
    Amendment XIX

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote

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