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Processes of amending or changing a constitution are normally provided in the
document itself. The United States Constitution has only been amended 26
times since it went into effect in 1789, and ten of those amendments consist of
the Bill of Rights that was added in 1791. Because the amendment process is
time-consuming and cumbersome, the fundamental law of the nation is not
easily subject to the whims of special-interest group, factions, or even the
majority of the population at any given time. The shorter and more basic a
constitution is, the less likely it is to be changed. The most successful
constitutions confine themselves primarily to the procedures of government.