2/3 of the states must ratify an amendment before it becomes law.
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The constitution has been amended a total of 27 times. Of those, 17 were added after the Bill of Rights.
An example of Ratification (Formal Approval) is the Articles of Confederation in 1781. They needed to have 13 states to ratify the new government that would take place in the us.
Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee were both Virginians who did NOT support the Ratification of the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to our constitution. They were introduced in 1789 and adopted in 1791. The Constitution itself was adopted two years earlier in 1787 and began the ratification process then. It replaced the Articles of Confederation.
At the end of the Constitution. After all of the Articles of the US Constitution are the Amendments of the US Constitution. After Article VII and the names of signers and a brief statement saying that the Constitution was passed, then come the Amendments.