Amendment 5 of the constitution states how other amendments can be added. I think that the amendment process should be complicated because if it were not, the constitution would be pointless. There are only two ways to amend the constitution, one has never been used. There are only twenty-seven amendments today, which explain by it that it is very hard to amend the constitution. I think that the amend process is a good idea. .
Farmers did not want the amendment process to be simple, thus they made it so that the amendment process may take months or years to complete. The farmers knew that the nation would change, so they wanted the constitution to last a very long time. The amendment process was made so that it could make it a living document that could live for hundreds of years. .
There are two ways to amend the constitution; they can take months or years to complete. An amendment can be planned by two thirds of the house and the senate; if they decide that it is not that important than it may just become a law; the second way has never been used so it is not important. The second part of the amendment process is to have the amendment ratified. It can be ratified in two ways; the first way is for it to be approved by three fourths of the state, which is very difficult to do. The second way, which has been used once, is that it has to be approved by special conventions held in the states. .
Since the constitution has been written only 17 amendments have been added. The 13 through 15 were made for the purpose of the Civil War. The thirteenth abolished slavery, the fourteenth gives citizenship to slaves, and the fifteenth allows the people to vote no matter the race, color, or if they were a slave. The eighteenth is the probation on alcohol, which was taken out by the twenty-first amendment, which cancels each other out. Most of the other amendments have to do with the government and voting laws.
