USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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a change to the Constitution
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a change to the Declaration of Independence
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an addition to the Constitution
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an addition to the Declaration of Independence
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Detailed explanation-1: -amendment, in government and law, an addition or alteration made to a constitution, statute, or legislative bill or resolution. Amendments can be made to existing constitutions and statutes and are also commonly made to bills in the course of their passage through a legislature.
Detailed explanation-2: -When the requisite number of states ratify a proposed amendment, the archivist of the United States proclaims it as a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Actual certification is published immediately in the Federal Register and eventually in the United States Statutes-at-Large.
Detailed explanation-3: -More than 11, 000 amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed, but only 27 have been ratified. The first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791.