<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Additional amendments to the United States Constitution </Td> </Tr> <P> Amendments to the Constitution subsequent to the Bill of Rights cover a wide range of subjects . Several have added significant content to the original document . One of the most far - reaching is the Fourteenth, ratified in 1868, which establishes a clear and simple definition of citizenship and guarantees equal treatment under the law . Also significant are the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty - fourth, and Twenty - sixth, which were enacted to extend the right to vote to persons previously considered ineligible and also to protect their exercise of that right . One Amendment, the Eighteenth, which criminalized the production, transport and sale of alcohol nationwide, was later repealed by another, the Twenty - first . Nine ratified amendments (11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, and 25) have explicitly superseded or modified the text of the original Constitution . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3a </Td> <Td> Regarding how the apportionment of representatives and direct taxes among the states is determined . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 1, Section 3, Clause 1 </Td> <Td> Regarding the senators from each state being chosen by the legislature of that state . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Seventeenth Amendment, Section 1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 1, Section 3, Clause 2 </Td> <Td> Regarding the filling of vacancies in the senate . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Seventeenth Amendment, Section 2 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 1, Section 4, Clause 2 </Td> <Td> Regarding when each year the Congress must assemble . </Td> <Td> Modified by the Twentieth Amendment, Section 2 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4 </Td> <Td> Regarding Congress' restricted taxation power . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Sixteenth Amendment </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 2, Section 1, Clause 1b </Td> <Td> Regarding the length of the president's and vice president's term of office . </Td> <Td> Temporarily modified by the Twentieth Amendment, Section 1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 2, Section 1, Clause 3 </Td> <Td> Regarding Electoral College voting procedures . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Twelfth Amendment </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 </Td> <Td> Regarding eligibility for holding the office of president . </Td> <Td> Modified by the Twenty - second Amendment, Section 1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 2, Section 1, Clause 6 </Td> <Td> Regarding presidential powers and duties if the presidency is vacant or if the President is unable to discharge said powers and duties . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Twenty - fifth Amendment </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1 </Td> <Td> Regarding the diversity jurisdiction given to the judiciary to hear cases between a state and citizens of another state . </Td> <Td> Modified by the Eleventh Amendment </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 </Td> <Td> Regarding persons held (involuntarily) to service or labor . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment, Section 1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> α--In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment rendered the formula prescribed in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3, whereby only three - fifths of all other Persons (slaves) were counted when determining a state's total population for apportionment purposes, moot de jure . Three years later, the entire first sentence of the clause was superseded by the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2 . This later amendment however, left Congress' taxation power unchanged, as the replacement clause in it made no mention of apportionment of direct taxes . Even so, Congress' ability to levy taxes was still governed by Article 1 Section 9 Clause 4 of the Constitution . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> β--Section 1 of the Seventeenth Amendment, regarding the six - year term of office for senators, was shortened for those persons whose term as senator ended on March 4, 1935, 1937, and 1939, by the interval between January 3 and March 4, of that year (61 days) by the Twentieth Amendment, which became part of the Constitution on January 23, 1933 and the changes made by Section 1 took effect on October 15, 1933 . This amendment also had a de facto effect on Article 1, Section 2, Clause 1a, for although the election was held as prescribed, the term of office for the persons elected to Congress in November 1932, was in effect shortened by the same interval of days . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> γ--The term of office for the persons elected President and Vice President (Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner respectively) in November 1932, was shortened by the interval between January 20 and March 4, 1937 (44 days), by the Twentieth Amendment . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> δ--The fourth sentence of the Twelfth Amendment, regarding the Vice President acting as President if the House, when the choice is theirs to make, has not elected a President by March 4, has been superseded by the Twentieth Amendment, Section 3 . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3a </Td> <Td> Regarding how the apportionment of representatives and direct taxes among the states is determined . </Td> <Td> Superseded by the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2 </Td> </Tr>

Who was allowed to vote when the us constitution was written open study