


27th Amendment Ratified May 7, 1992
The 27th Amendment requires that no change in compensation for a Representative or a Senator “shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.” The intent of the amendment was to prohibit sitting members of Congress from...
Eighteenth Amendment
On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, after years of campaigning by prohibition proponents. The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale or distribution of “intoxicating liquors” within the United States. The Volstead Act was...
Bill of Rights Ratified
On this day in 1791, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were ratified. The Bill of Rights, as these Amendments came to be known, guaranteed personal liberties with the federal government. The First Amendment alone included the right to...