Constitutional+Amendments

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The Constitution of the United States of America

== In 1787, a group of men gathered together from each of the 13 states to discuss a way to put all of their ideas together to create a new system to help the faults of the Articles of Confederation to better their newly developed country. In hopes for a new way of life for the people, they wrote down the rights of the people and a set of laws they felt were needed to obliged by to have a functional government. "We the People of the United States" is the beginning of the preamble of the Constitution, showing that this is how most of the average people living in the new country felt. The first ten amendments that were created are the Bill of Rights, which outlines the natural rights of the people. ==

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Our Founding Fathers of the United States
**Benjamin Franklin **



**George Washington **



**John Adams **



**Thomas Jefferson **



**John Jay **



**James Madison **



**Alexander Hamilton **



Amendment Process of the United States Constitution:
== The Constitution is the highest law of power in the United States. Every law that has been created has been based off of the original ideas of the Constitution. When the Constitution was created in 1787, the United States was a brand new country and this document would be the framework for this new system of government. Some of the writers of the Constitution, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison knew that this document was not perfect and that future generations would want to make changes on the original laws; creating an amendment process for the future challenges America might face. The amendment process is a way for the government to make changes to the original laws and even make new amendments to replace the old ones so we can have a set of principles we must follow by to keep the United States a structured country. ==



Over-view of the Amendment Process:
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 * The power to amend the constitution is found in Article V of the Constitution
 * Ratification: An amendment can be created or changed with either with 2/3 of the votes from both the House of Representatives and the Senate or 2/3 of the vote of the state legislatures.
 * It is not easy, though, to create or amend an amendment. It was created that way so the Constitution can only be changed for serious means.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Out of the thousands of proposals made to amend the Constitution, only 27 have been passed.

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 * **The Americans - Your textbook**
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