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Are Formal changes to the Constitution frequent?
Formal changes to the US Constitution are called Amendments. There are 27 in all. The first 10 are the Bill of Rights. Those ten and two more were added in the first few years after the US Constitution was created. Just 15 amendments have been approved in the last 200 years. That means the average time between amendments is about 13 years. Only 1 has been approved in the last 38 years.
Which four Southern states were part of the 13 original states that approved the Constitution?
They are Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
How many states were required to pass the US Constitution?
All 13 out of 13 states.
Amendments that prohibited certain practices by the states?
The tenth amendment of the US Constitution prohibited certain practices by the states. This amendment stated that the states could only have powers which were not already overseen by the federal government.
Did the new US Constitution have to be ratified by all 13 existing states?
No. According to Article 7, the Constitution was considered ratified when 9 states (2/3 of the 13) had approved it. The last 2 states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, ratified the Constitution in late 1789 and in 1790, after the proposition of the Bill of Rights in September, 1789.
