Constitution: Why Do Amendments Become Part Of The Constitution
Intro
How Amendments Became apart of the Constitution.
Why do Amendments Become part of the Constitution.
Problems with original Documents.
Prompt adoption of Bill of rights.
Effects of the bill of rights.
Problems with original Documents that Chang society or Led to later Amendments.
Twelfth Amendment
Twenty Second Amendment
Twenty Fifth Amendment
How Amendments Become Part of the Constitution
Process: After Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions. The Archivist has delegated many of the ministerial duties associated with this function to the Director of the Federal Register.
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And guarantee that they had the right to vote. As originally drafted, the Constitution was silent on the issue of slavery, although its language led most scholars to believe that it was constitutionally protected. For that reason, a constitutional amendment was needed to end it.
Prompt Adoption of Bill Of Rights
• During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution.
Mason had earlier written the Virginia Declaration of Rights that strongly influenced Thomas Jefferson in writing the first part of the Declaration of Independence. He left the convention bitterly disappointed, however, and became one of the Constitution's most vocal opponents.
Effects of the Bill Of Rights
• The Bill of Rights is made up of ten separate amendments, dealing with issues ranging from free speech and unjust searches to religious liberty and cruel and unusual
How Amendments Became apart of the Constitution.
Why do Amendments Become part of the Constitution.
Problems with original Documents.
Prompt adoption of Bill of rights.
Effects of the bill of rights.
Problems with original Documents that Chang society or Led to later Amendments.
Twelfth Amendment
Twenty Second Amendment
Twenty Fifth Amendment
How Amendments Become Part of the Constitution
Process: After Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions. The Archivist has delegated many of the ministerial duties associated with this function to the Director of the Federal Register.
Why Do Amendments Become …show more content…
And guarantee that they had the right to vote. As originally drafted, the Constitution was silent on the issue of slavery, although its language led most scholars to believe that it was constitutionally protected. For that reason, a constitutional amendment was needed to end it.
Prompt Adoption of Bill Of Rights
• During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution.
Mason had earlier written the Virginia Declaration of Rights that strongly influenced Thomas Jefferson in writing the first part of the Declaration of Independence. He left the convention bitterly disappointed, however, and became one of the Constitution's most vocal opponents.
Effects of the Bill Of Rights
• The Bill of Rights is made up of ten separate amendments, dealing with issues ranging from free speech and unjust searches to religious liberty and cruel and unusual