amendments

     

An amenment is a change to the constitution of a nation or a state. In jurisdictions with "rigid" or "entrenched" constitutions amendments require a special procedure different from that used for enacting ordinary laws.

Trivia about amendments

  • The first 10 of these are known as the Bill of Rights
  • The U.S. Constitution has 7 articles & 27 of these additions
  • Article V spells out the procedures for making these changes to the Constitution