Assertion: amendment | /r/AtLocation | the constitution
Facets:
value: in 1791
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Twenty-seven amendments have been added (appended as codicils) to the Constitution.
text: But for an amendment to be added to the Constitution, a minimum of 38 states have to sign off.
text: … states that a proposed Amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the states, indicating that Congressional action is not needed to certify that the Amendment has been added to the Constitution.
text: The United States Bill of Rights consists of 10 amendments added to the Constitution in 1791, as supporters of the Constitution had promised critics during the debates of 1788.
text: The most-recent amendment added to the Constitution was the 27th Amendment in 1992, which prevented Congress from changing its own compensation during a term in progress; that amendment had first been proposed in 1789 but wasn’t ratified as part of the Bill of Rights.