how can i learn the amendments to the constitution?
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Try this site:\n\nhttp://www.usconstitution.net/\n\nIt has all kind of information on the Constitution.
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United States Constitution and the United States Bill of rights. The structure keeps changing but the basics pretty much remains the same.
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Buy a copy of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers
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Here you go: \n\nhttp://www.usconstitution.net/const.html\n\nhttp://www.azleg.state.az.us/Constitution.asp\n\nNow all you have to do is read and then contrast and compare. Have fun.
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Come from Constitution
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States
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sent to your home?\n\nI'm not sure, but there are lots of websites you could download and print it.  Most encyclopedias include a copy (our old World Book's have it).\n\nYou can get the full text at this site, along with other information.\nhttp://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/\n\nThe US constitution is not a complex legal document (even though it is being turned into one by complex legal people).  It is not too long.  It is pretty clear. \n\nEveryone in the US should be famaliar with this document.\n\nThe preamble is poetic.  The bill of rights (the attachement) is the key to our way of life.\n\nGood luck and good reading.
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To date, there have been 27 amendments.\n\nThe first 10 amendments are known as the Bill of Rights.
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there are 27 amendments to the constitution.  These amendments made to the constitution are changes made to the main body.  These include basic rights for citizens ie. the Bill of Rights, which is made up of the first ten amendments.  The others have come along due to changes in government as society changes over time.
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http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html\nhttp://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html\nhttp://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
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There are essentially two ways spelled out in the Constitution for how it can be amended. One has never been used.\n\nThe first method is for a bill to pass both halves of the legislature, by a two-thirds majority in each. Once the bill has passed both houses, it goes on to the states. This is the route taken by all current amendments. Because of some long outstanding amendments, such as the 27th, Congress will normally put a time limit (typically seven years) for the bill to be approved as an amendment (for example, see the 21st and 22nd).\n\nThe second method prescribed is for a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States, and for that Convention to propose one or more amendments. These amendments are then sent to the states to be approved by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions. This route has never been taken, and there is discussion in political science circles about just how such a convention would be convened, and what kind of changes it would bring about.\n\nRegardless of which of the two proposal routes is taken, the amendment must be approved by three-fourths of states. The amendment as passed may specify whether the bill must be passed by the state legislatures or by a state convention. See the Ratification Convention Page for a discussion of the make up of a convention. Amendments are sent to the legislatures of the states by default. Only one amendment, the 21st, specified a convention. In any case, passage by the legislature or convention is by simple majority.\n\nIt is interesting to note that at no point does the President have a role in the formal amendment process (though he would be free to make his opinion known). He cannot veto an amendment proposal, nor a ratification. This point is clear in Article 5, and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v Virginia (3 USC 378 [1798]):
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The Constitution of the United States
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Women can vote...that's the only one that mattered ;) haha\n\n\nThe Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. Here you go--you asked ;)\n\nFirst Amendment\n\nThe First Amendment addresses the rights of freedom of speech and the press; the right of peaceful assembly; and the right of petition. It also addresses freedom of religion, both in terms of prohibiting the establishment of religion and protecting the right to free exercise of religion.\n[edit]\n\nSecond Amendment\n\n    main article: Second Amendment\n\nThe Second Amendment states, in its entirety, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Compared to other amendments, there is little case law about the Second Amendment.\n[edit]\n\nThird Amendment\n\nThe Third Amendment prohibits the government from using private homes as quarters for soldiers without the consent of the owners. Much as the Second Amendment, there is largely no case law. There has been no Supreme Court case law, and only one odd case, Engblom v. Carey, which has even addressed the Third Amendment.[2]\n[edit]\n\nFourth Amendment\n\nThe Fourth Amendment guards against searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed. A general right to privacy has been inferred from this amendment and others by the Supreme Court (See Griswold v. Connecticut), including a right to medical abortion.\n[edit]\n\nFifth through Eighth Amendments\n\nThe next four amendments deal with the system of justice. The fifth forbids trial for a major crime except after indictment by a grand jury; prohibits repeated trials for the same offense after an acquittal (except in certain very limited circumstances); forbids punishment without due process of law; and provides that an accused person may not be compelled to testify against himself (this is also known as "Taking the fifth" or "Pleading the fifth"). This is regarded as the "rights of the accused" amendment. The sixth guarantees a speedy public trial for criminal offenses. It requires trial by a jury (of peers), guarantees the right to legal counsel for the accused, and guarantees that the accused may require witnesses to attend the trial and testify in the presence of the accused. The seventh assures trial by jury in civil cases involving anything valued at more than 20 United States dollars at the time, which is currently worth $300 presently, when accounting for inflation. The eighth forbids excessive bail or fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. In 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that the fifth and sixth amendments were to be read to all persons placed under arrest, and as a result these two amendments have become known as the Miranda warning or Miranda rights.\n[edit]\n\nNinth and Tenth Amendments\n\nThe last two of the first ten amendments contain very broad statements of constitutional authority.\n\nThe Ninth Amendment declares that the listing of individual rights in the Bill of Rights is not meant to be comprehensive; that the people have other unenumerated rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. The right of privacy has been interpreted as one of these unenumerated rights by many people. The right of the people to keep and bear arms (the protection of which right the Second Amendment prohibits infringement) is also often interpreted as another of these unenumerated rights by many people. [3] Other, pre-existing, non-enumerated rights, besides just these two, continue to exist because of the Ninth Amendment. There is little case law.\n\nThe Tenth Amendment provides that powers the Constitution does not delegate to the United States and does not prohibit the states from having are "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The phrase "or to the people", somewhat puzzling as to its applicabil
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It is "the Bill of Rights" [not 'or"]\n\nThe first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution.  They were adopted at the same time as the Constitution, and enumerate individual and other rights reserved to the states, such as freedom of speech, religion, assembly (No. 1), right to bear arms (no. 2); freedom from unreasonable search and seizure (no. 4) etc.
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What is referred to as the Bill of Rights are the first Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.  They are actually the ten “ratified amendments in that 12 were proposed to the legislatures of the then several States 25 17 September 1789.  Ratification was completed 15 December 1791.\n\nThis “Bill of Rights” evolved from an agreement during the constitutional convention to reach the votes required to send the proposed constitution to the then congress functioning under the Articles of Confederation.  The draft of proposed 12 amendments were written primarily by James Madison who was heavily influenced by the Virginia List of Rights.  \n\nThey differ from lists of rights in “other” governmental jurisdictions (as parts of other constitutions) which are generally lists of specific rights.  The U.S. Bill of rights is basically a list things that they federal government is excluded from doing (the first 8 articles).  The last two articles are declarations of basic truths.\n\nThere are 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution (inclusive of the ten in the Bill of Rights).  However, there has been a number of amendments proposed (in total I believe 36) of which only the 27 have been ratified.\n\nAmendments must follow the Constitutional amendment process as detailed in Article 5 of the Constitution.  Beginning with the 18th Amendment Congress has taken up the practice of noting a time limit for ratification by the States.  I believe that this was held valid in Coleman v. Miller [1939]\n\nFollowing is my working list of the Amendments that I use on a daily basis.  One note of import, you will notice that amendment 2 is different from what is normally printed in that is has a single comma as opposed to the typical 3 commas.  My version is the version which was proposed to the several States and ratified.  Its meaning (due to the different punctuation) is quite different.  My reference on this is the Library of Congress.\n\nAmendment I - Religion, Speech, Assembly, and Politics\nCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\n\nAmendment II - Militia and the Right to Bear Arms\nA well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.\n\nAmendment III - Quartering of Soldiers\nNo Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.\n\nAmendment IV - Searches and Seizures\nThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\n\nAmendment V - Grand Juries, Self-Incrimination, Double Jeopardy, Due Process, and Eminent Domain\nNo person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.\n\nAmendment VI - Criminal Court Procedures\nIn all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which distric
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http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/amend13.htm\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiii.html
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http://www.supremecourtus.gov/\n\nhttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/\n\nhttp://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/