Lower-income Americans are less likely to identify lesser-known freedoms and more likely to say they are unclear on how the First Amendment impacts them.

The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from taking effect until after the next election. The most recent substantive amendment, the 26th, (1971) lowered the national voting age from 21 to 18.

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The National Archives in Washington, D.C. will be showcasing the four pages of the historic document, plus a rarely shown "fifth page," the Bill of Rights and the 17 other amendments

The ballot language: “The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a veteran who died as a result of a condition or disease that is presumed under federal law to have been service-connected.”

The proposed amendment to the Texas Constitution would add “persons who are not citizens of the United States” to a list of those ineligible to vote in Texas. The new language would be placed in the constitution’s “Bill of Rights,” a symbolic piece of real estate in a 273-page document that had been amended 530 times since it was ratified in 1876.