Should The Constitution Have 27 Amendmentss

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Many people argue that the constitution has processes to amend it or remove amendments, and that this process has fixed many issues in the constitution. For example, it ended slavery, allowed women and non-whites to vote, and now considers Blacks full citizens, not three-fifths of a person, thus the constitution is good the way it is because there is a process of amending it. Well the constitution has only 27 amendments and the reason it only has 27 amendments is because the process of amending it is so long and rigorous. And the people who are voting on the amendments are generally people who are not affected by those issues. But how effective is that process, it took a Civil War so people didn’t own other people. It divided the country in

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