Full text and detailed summary of the 6th Amendment to the Constitution. Site includes links to related resources including videos, timeline, and news articles.

Detailed explanation of the 4th Amendment and links to related resources including a number of news articles, video and timelines.

Text and full descriptive summary of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. Reference accompanied by links to related material including, video, timeline, and news sources.

Text and summary of the 3rd Amendment to the Constitution. Links to related resources.

Annenberg Classroom summary and text of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Links to relevant news articles, video, and timeline.

Examine the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women voting rights.

A collection that uses primary sources to explore the campaign for women's suffrage through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Fifteenth Amendment.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Equal Rights Amendment.

This video segment from The Supreme Court introduces viewers to the 14th amendment.

This Environmental Protection Agency site offers links to many documents from the EPA concerning the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Very informative page focusing on the guidelines for freedom of the press, the first amendment. Offers examples and tenets to follow. Geared towards professionals but also accessible to students.

Primary source document, informational text and questions for discussion included for students studying issues surrounding the abolition of slavery and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

The 18th amendment regarding the prohibition of intoxicating liquors, as it is worded in the U.S. Constitution. Annotations about the validity, enforcement, and repeal of the amendment are provided, as well as footnotes.

These lessons address constitutional principles and contemporary issues involving the First Amendment. They intend to have explore how freedoms began and how they operate in today's world. Students will discuss just how far individual...

Help students grasp the idea of making amendments with this lesson on the debates of the amendments to the US Constitution. Use primary sources to have the students choose their own amendments, give them opportunity to analyze the...

This resource contains an annotated look at the different topics covered within the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Click on any subtopic link for in-depth information about that part of the First Amendment.

Read this text of the 16th Amendment, followed by the history of the Amendment and an analysis. (PDF)

This resource gives the text of the Eleventh Amendment. Additionally, annotations are provided, which cite case law and other pertinent information.

Complete text of the thirteenth amendment of the United States Constitution.

Read the text of the 13th Amendment, adopted in January, 1865, even before the end of the Civil War, which ended slavery in the United States. Click on the image to see a larger picture of the document itself.

Check out this National Archives and Records (NARA) site to see the original Tennessee document ratifying the 19th Amendment. Also includes a short explanation as to why Tennessee's vote was so crucial.

This resource gives the text of the Fifteenth Amendment with annotations. The paragraph on literacy tests includes information on Alabama's amendment which was clearly aimed at African Americans.

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention had to decide the means of amending the Constitution. Discusses Madison's proposal for empowering Congress to propose amendments, either on its own initiative or upon application by the...