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Amendment Essays: Research Sites

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	10th Amendment	19th Amendment	22nd Amendment	26th Amendment
Definition:	Powers not given to the federal government by the Constitution belong to the states or the people.	Women have the right to vote.	The limit on the number of times a President could be elected: two four-year terms. It has one exception for a Vice-President who assumes the Presidency after the death or removal of the President, making the maximum term of any President to 10 years.	U.S. citizens who are 18 years of age or older have the right to vote. (Previously, they had to be 21 years old.)
Year:	1791	1920	1947	1971
Terms to search with:	States’ rights, Reserved powers	Women, Right to vote, Women's suffrage	President, Term limits	Right to vote, voting age
Sites to check:	UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Tenth Amendment States' Rights: West's Encyclopedia of American Law Tenth Amendment: Encyclopedia of the American Constitution West's Encyclopedia of American Law: Tenth Amendment Tenth Amendment Center: About the Tenth Government Publications: 10th Amendment Reserved Powers Lectric Law Library: 10^th Amendment 10^th Amendment Center: History and Purpose Tenth and Eleventh Amendment Limitations on Federal Power	World Book: Woman Suffrage Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment Human and Civil Rights Essential Primary Sources: American Women Enfranchised Americans at War: Women's Suffrage Movement UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Nineteenth Amendment West's Encyclopedia of American Law: Nineteenth Amendment 100 Milestone Documents: 19th Amendment Laws.com:Overview of the 19th Amendment Women's Fight for the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment National Archives and Records Administration:The 19th Amendment 19th Amendment: History of Women’s Suffrage 19th Amendment: Women’s Suffrage	Laws.com: An Overview of the 22^nd Amendment Laws.com: Understanding the 22nd Amendment 22: Presidential Term Limits America's 22nd Amendment	Laws.com: An Overview of the 26th Amendment History.com: The 26^th Amendment 26th Amendment: Voting Age The 26th Amendment Lowers Voting Age to 18 Historical Highlights: The 26th Amendment The 26th Amendment and The Progressive Constitution