What dose amendments mean?

Answer 1

The amendments do what they sound like they do. They amend the constitution. When the constitution was written the founding fathers made it so changes could be made but they didn't want it an easy process to do so they created the system we have. This makes the constitution a living document because in the 200 years since it was written many things have been invented and the country is a different place than it was in 1789. The first few years after the constitution was written the men who wrote it were still alive and could be questioned why something was written the way it was written, but when Madison died he was the last living member of the constitutional convention so from that point we could only guess what was meant. This is where the amendment process comes in because we can clarify an amendment or make a new one when needed.