How many states have to ratify an amenmentbefore it can be added to the constitution?
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38 with our current 50 states.  75+% in general.  It's 2/3 to start one, but you need 3/4 to ratify it.
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The U.S. Constitution was drawn up by the \nConstitutional Convention.  The biggest contributor was James Madison.\n\nThe Constitution was ratified by the states.  It took nine yes votes (out of 13 states) to ratify it.
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39 out of 55 people signed the constitution of the United States, 3 delegates refused to sign it, and 13 left the... whats the word? delegation I guess...
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Nope. The laws in our country protect us from absolute authority... there have been a few ammendments added but for the most part, it's all we the people. Not just one person signs a bill around here... The declaration of Independance has multiple signatures on it.\n\n(would someone just tell that to our current President?)\n\nThe consititution is the closest thing we have to a "book of rules". Even that was put together and signed by multiple people from 12 different states:\n\nGEO WASHINGTON-- 1st Presidt. \n[Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.] \nJohn Langdon\nNicholas Gilman \nGeo. Read\nGunning Bedford jun\nJohn Dickinson\nRichard Bassett\nJacob Broom \nNathaniel Gorham\nRufus King \nJames MCHenry\nDan. of St. Thos. Jenifer\nDanl. Carroll \nWm. Saml. Johnson\nRoger Sherman \nAlexander Hamilton \nJohn Blair--\nJames Madison Jr. \nWil. Livingston\nDavid Brearley.\nWm. Paterson.\nJona. Dayton \nWm. Blount\nRichd. Dobbs Spaight.\nHu Williamson \nB. Franklin\nThomas Mifflin\nRobt. Morris\nGeo. Clymer\nThos. FitzSimons\nJared Ingersoll\nJames Wilson\nGouv Morris \nJ. Rutledge\nCharles Cotesworth Pinckney\nCharles Pinckney\nPierce Butler \nWilliam Few\nAbr Baldwin \nWilliam Jackson, Secretary
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was one of the original thirteen colonies. It was the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, after Delaware.
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a constitutional amendment must be passed by 2/3's of each house of congress and then approved by 3/4's of the state legislatures.
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The Constitution was ratified by the states in the following order:\n#   Date-State Yea/Nay/Approval\n1.  December 7, 1787-Delaware 30/0/100%\n2.  December 12, 1787-Pennsylvania 46/23/67%\n3.  December 18, 1787-New Jersey 38/0/100%\n4.  January 2, 1788-Georgia 26/0/100%\n5.  January 9, 1788-Connecticut 128/40/76%\n6.  February 6, 1788-Massachusetts 187/168/53%\n7.  April 28, 1788-Maryland 63/11/85%\n8.  May 23, 1788-South Carolina 149/73/67%\n9.  June 21, 1788-New Hampshire 57/47/55%\n10.  June 25, 1788-Virginia 89/79/53%\n11.  July 26, 1788-New York 30/27/53%\n12.  November 21, 1789-North Carolina 194/77/72%\n13.  May 29, 1790-Rhode Island 34/32/52%
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In the context of the United States of America, a state constitution is the governing document of a U.S. state, comparable to the U.S. Constitution which is the governing document of the United States. Some states have had multiple constitutions and since each state drafts its own, there is great diversity between them, though all have some basic concepts in common.\n\nThe average length of a state constitution is 26,000 words (compared to about 8,700 words for the U.S. constitution). The longest state governing document is that of Alabama, which has over 310,000 words. That document is also the most amended state constitution in the Union, with over 770 amendments as of 2005 (the average state constitution has been amended about 115 times)[citation needed]. The oldest state constitution still in effect is that of Massachusetts, which took effect in 1780. The newest is the Georgia Constitution, which was ratified in 1983\n\nThe United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. Most Americans take the term to mean the actual written text which was completed on September 17, 1787, with its adoption by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was later ratified by special conventions in each state.[1] When nine states of the then thirteen states ratified the document it marked the creation of a union of sovereign states, and a federal government to operate that union. It replaced the weaker, less well-defined union that existed under the Articles of Confederation and took effect on March 4, 1789. The Constitution of the United States is the oldest federal constitution currently in use\n\nArticle One establishes the legislative branch of government, U.S. Congress, which includes the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Article establishes the manner of election and qualifications of members of each House. In addition, it provides for free debate in congress and limits self-serving behavior of congressmen, outlines legislative procedure and indicates the powers of the legislative branch. Finally, it establishes limits on federal and state legislative power.\n\nArticle Two describes the presidency (the executive branch): procedures for the selection of the president, qualifications for office, the oath to be affirmed and the powers and duties of the office. It also provides for the office of Vice President of the United States, and specifies that the Vice President succeeds to the presidency if the President is incapacitated, dies, or resigns, although whether this succession was on an acting or permanent basis was unclear until the passage of the 25th Amendment.\n\nArticle Two also provides for the impeachment and removal from office of civil officers (the President, Vice President, judges, and others). (See presidential system)\n\nArticle Three describes the court system (the judicial branch), including the Supreme Court. The article requires that there be one court called the Supreme Court; Congress, at its discretion, can create lower courts, whose judgments and orders are reviewable by the Supreme Court. Article Three also requires trial by jury in all criminal cases, defines the crime of treason, and charges Congress with providing for a punishment for it, while imposing limits on that punishment.\n\nArticle Four describes the relationship between the states and the Federal government, and amongst the states. For instance, it requires states to give "full faith and credit" to the public acts, records and court proceedings of the other states. Congress is permitted to regulate the manner in which proof of such acts, records or proceedings may be admitted. The "privileges and immunities" clause prohibits state governments from discriminating against citizens of other states in favor of resident citizens (e.g., having tougher penalties for residents of Ohio convicted of crimes within Arizona). It also establishes extradition between the states, as we
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The phrase itself appears in a letter from President Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut, on Jan 1, 1802. \n\n        The Baptist Association had written to President Jefferson regarding a "rumor that a particular denomination was soon to be recognized as the national denomination." Jefferson responded to calm their fears by assuring them that the federal government would not establish any single denomination of Christianity as the National denomination. He wrote: "The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between Church and State." \n\n        Notice the phrasing in the U.S. Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 3:\n\n\n        The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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The Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.  The founding fathers knew that it would take more time than they had to put together a Bill of Rights for the original constitution so they agreed to add one later instead.
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by the constitution...each state has 2 senators
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Well, probably too late now for the test.\n\nTry reading the Constitution. It's only a dozen or so pages. The main Articles that deal with checks and balances are the first three that establish the main branches of government, and Article VI.
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27 amendments to the US Constitution have been ratified.
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There are 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first ten are known as the Bill of Rights. The last one was added in 1992
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27\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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In all, Illinois has had four (4) constitutions.\n\nThe first constitution, adopted in 1818, was modeled after that of the federal government and the state constitutions of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana.\n\nThe other three were adopted in 1848,1870, and 1970.
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There were 55 delegates from 12 states (the 13 colonies except for Rhode Island) at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, of whom 39 signed the final document.  The link below has a list of all attendees and signers.\n\nGouverneur Morris probably had the most influence on the actual document text, as he headed the Committee of Style and Arrangement.  Alexander Hamilton, William Samuel Johnson, Rufus King, and James Madison were also on that committee and had significant input.