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Unpack the ideas of America's founding and trace the evolution of those ideas through the schisms of the 19th century, the transformations of the 20th century, and into our present era. | Unpack the ideas of America's founding and trace the evolution of those ideas through the schisms of the 19th century, the transformations of the 20th century, and into our present era. | ||
=====What is the historical background of the U.S. Constitution?===== | |||
[https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-historical-background-of-the-U-S-Constitution by Quora] | |||
Our government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” was not a copy of some other country or governance concept. It was completely new to the world. World scholars called it the great experiment, and they fully expected it to fail. | |||
=====Amendments to the U.S. Constitution===== | |||
[https://archivesfoundation.org/amendments-u-s-constitution/ by NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION] | |||
More than 11,000 amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed, but only 27 have been ratified. The first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing these amendments is on display in the National Archives’ Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom. | |||
