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[https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-historical-background-of-the-U-S-Constitution by Quora] | [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. | 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. | |||
