When the Constitution was made there was many rules put into it by farmers who didn’t know much about how to run a country. In this large document there is seven different articles that cover how the government works. These outlines to the government were very detailed, mostly with many restrictions.
In the fifth article it has ways to change and alter the way the laws affect the people. These additions to the constitution are called amendments, or a minor change in a document. Since the constitution was made there has been twenty two different amendments passed. The farmers who made it knew that the document would have to change as the country grew and got more advanced, but the the original Constitution cannot change.
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