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What amendments have been made to the U.S. Constitution?

As of the year 2000, there were twenty-seven amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The following list gives brief summaries and the year each amendment became part of the Constitution.

• First Amendment through the Tenth Amendment (1791): Comprise the Bill of Rights.
• Eleventh Amendment (1798): Declares that U.S. federal courts cannot try any case brought against a state by a citizen of another state or country.
• Twelfth Amendment (1804): Revises the presidential and vice presidential election rules such that members of the electoral college, a group of voters appointed by the states, vote for one person as president and another as vice president. Prior to the passage of this amendment, the electors simply voted for two candidates; the one receiving more votes became president and the other became vice president.
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