Amendment songs!

These two songs were just a couple I found while looking around for other amendment videos. They go over all 27 amendments and really helped me study and memorize the amendments!

Amendment 27

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

The 27th amendment made it so congressional pay raises can't go into effect until after the next congressional election

A short cartoon debate about the 27th amendment.

Amendment 26

[1.] The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

[2.] The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The 26th amendment made the official voting age for U.S. people 18 years of age. 

Why is it important to vote?

Amendment 25

[1.] In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

[2.] Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of theVice President, the President shall nominate aVice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

[3.] Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be dis­charged by the Vice President as Acting President.

[4.] Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assem­bling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, theVice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

The 25th amendment addresses succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as how to respond to Presidential disabilities.

A short video about what the 25th amendment does for our country.

Amendment 24

[1.] The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

[2.] The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of a poll taxes. Ended poll taxes.

Poll taxes are over for the United States

All about why the 24th amendment came to be

Amendment 23

[1.] The District constituting the seat of Govern ­ment of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:A number of electors of President andVice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representa ­tives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President andVice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

[2.] The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

This amendment states that people from the District of Columbia can vote for president.

Amendment 22

[1.] No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

[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 from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

This amendment limited the number of times a person could be elected as president: a person cannot be elected president more than twice, and a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected cannot be elected more than once.

Obama, our current president, speaking about what he thinks about the 22nd amendment.

"No man is good three times" because the 22nd amendment limits presidents to 2 terms.