From state sovereign immunity to the 27th Amendment's two-century journey to ratification — seventeen changes since the Bill of Rights.
Bars federal courts from hearing suits against a state brought by citizens of another state or country.
Requires separate electoral ballots for President and Vice President, fixing a flaw exposed in 1800.
Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Guarantees birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection of the laws against state action.
Prohibits denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Authorizes Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states by population.
Shifts the choice of U.S. Senators from state legislatures to a direct popular vote.
Bans the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages nationwide. Repealed in 1933.
Prohibits denying the right to vote on account of sex.
Moves the start of presidential and congressional terms earlier, shortening the outgoing Congress's session.
Repeals the 18th Amendment — the only amendment ever ratified specifically to undo another.
Limits a president to two elected terms, codifying the two-term tradition Washington began.
Grants Washington, D.C. electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
Prohibits conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax.
Sets the process for filling a vice-presidential vacancy and for handling presidential disability.
Prohibits denying the right to vote to citizens eighteen or older on account of age.
Delays any pay raise Congress votes itself until after the next election — proposed in 1789, ratified 203 years later.