Bill Of Rights

This lesson will discuss the Eleventh Amendment of the United States Constitution is an Amendment that talks about the sovereign immunity. The Eleventh Amendment was the first Amendment to the United States Constitution after the Bill of Rights. It was put into the Constitution on February 7, 1795.

The 15th amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. Specifically, it confirms the right to vote and lists conditions that are illegal to deny another person the right to vote. Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave.

The 14th Amendment, one of the reconstruction amendments , State and federal citizenship for all persons regardless of race both born or naturalized in the United States was reaffirmed.No state would be allowed to abridge the "privileges and immunities" of citizens, No person was allowed to be deprived of life, liberty,or property without "due process of law." No person could be denied "equal protection of the laws."