Bill of Right and Amendments Paper

Bill of Rights and Amendment Paper

Sherrie White

His/301

Monday 4, 2012

Brooklyn Sawyers

Bill of Rights and Amendment Paper

In this paper I am going to talk about the Bill of Rights and Amendments. This paper will talk about how and why do amendments become part of the constitution? What problems with the original document motivated the adoption of the Bill of Rights? What have been the effects of the Bill of Rights? What problems with the original document, or changes in society, led to later amendments? Will also talk about the Thirteenth through the Fifteenth Amendments and what have been the effects of these later Amendments?

The Amendment becomes part of the constitution, after the congress proposes an amendment to the archivist of the United States and is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provision of 1 U.S.C. 106b. The constitution also provides that an amendment may be proposed wither by the Congress with a two-thirds’ of the majority votes in both the House of Representative and the Senate, or by the constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the state’s legislatures. Once the amendment goes through the archivist and others it becomes part of the constitution as soon as its ratified by two-thirds of the states and the office of the federal register verifies that it had received the required amount of authenticated ratification documents with drafts from a formal proclamation for the archivist to certify that the amendment is valid and has become part of the constitution for the United States.

The problems with the original document of the constitution was that many people expressed their concerns that the document failed to specify the fundamental rights of the people that would immune from assaults by the federal officials (Jacob G. Hornberger, 2004). Most of these responses to that very argument were because of the constitution expressly restricted the government to...