The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote everywhere in the United States. It was passed by a majority of both Houses of Congress and states. Why is it important that the founders set up a way to add new amendments to the Constitution? Give me a two sentence answer, and make sure to use examples!

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Raquel Cherry

21 November, 00:22

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote everywhere in the United States. It was passed by a majority of both Houses of Congress and states. Why is it important that the founders set up a way to add new amendments to the Constitution? Give me a two sentence answer, and make sure to use examples!

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Tessa Reyes · Answer 1

The example you used is a perfect example. As conditions changed, new amendments had to be added to reflect the needed changes. Here are some of the amendments added.

13

14

15

All have to do with the colored getting the vote. The founding fathers knew that these amendments were necessary but they could not bring them about. It took a bloody civil war 85 years later to get it right with the amendments listed above.

19 is for women's right to vote.

Prohibition (forbidding drinking) is the 18th amendment. People wanted to try the experiment of prohibiting the sale and interstate transportation of alcohol. The experiment didn't work and the 21 st amendment repealed prohibition.

The 22nd amendment limits the president's term in office to 2 terms.

I've given you a slew of amendments because the writers of the constitution had no idea in the world that so much change would become needed. Conditions change needs.