How have both Madison and Jefferson views of amending the constitution proven true in some ways over the course of U.S history ? How have both Madison and Jefferson views of amending the constitution proven true?
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The Constitution of the United States was written during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia after the American Revolution had ended and the Articles of Confederation had proven a failure.
The US Constitution has provided a blueprint of law which has guided our country for two hundred and thirty-three years. It has proven itself to be a living document which can be used successfully despite changing times.
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This principal is not in the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or any other founding document of the United States. It was already an unwritten tenant of English Common Law. The phrase entered US law through a Supreme Court decision which reversed a lower court because the jury had not been instructed "The law presumes that persons charged with crime are innocent until they are proven by competent evidence to be guilty" in 1894.