to give people rights.
The U.S. Constitution is the document that states the amendments.
Seventeen more amendments have been added.
an amendment
amendments
Amendments are meant to allow changes to the constitution. Some rules may become obsolete as time passes. Having amendments ensures that the laws can be altered to suit a future condition.
bill of rights
42 people signed it
formal amendments
there has been 27 written changes to the US constitution
An amendment is a change in the Constitution, which could either be an addition, a deletion or simply a modification. In the history of the U.S. Constitution, only 27 amendments have been ratified.
There are 27 amendments in the constitution.
The authors of the constitution were smart enough to realize that they had not produced a perfect document which would everyone's needs perfectly until the end of time (or the end of the United States, whichever comes first). That is why the constitution allows amendments.