The first 10 amendments (more commonly known as The Bill of Rights) were put in place by a forefathers to ensure that Americans retained their rights and freedoms and that the government did not gain too much power. Following this manner, amendments today are made to improve the constitution (such as applying these rights to both genders and all races). Our founding fathers expected such amendments to be made - in fact, they expected the entire constitution to be replaced or otherwise completely remade years before now! Yet not that many amendments are made today due to the difficult manner in which they must be passed.
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The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments.
There are 27 amendments to the US Constitution. However, only 17 of them qualify as "changes", because the first 10, collectively referred to as the "Bill of Rights", did not come with the Constitution itself. Since the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, only 17 amendments have been ratified
Many amendments have been added but I am more curiois about the amendments since 1999!
The Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments were planned to remedy defects in the original Constitution. They are sometimes referred to as the perfecting amendments.
seven articles and twenty-seven amendments