The Constitution keeps pace with the growth of the nation. It has been amended 26 times since 1789, and it is likely to be further revised in the future. The most sweeping changes were made within two years of its adoption. In that period, the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were added, under the popular pressure.
  When the Constitution was first proposed in 1787, there was wide-spread dissatisfaction because it did not contain guarantees of certain basic freedoms and individual rights. The Founding Fathers who presided over the Constitutional Convention believed that this issue could somehow be avoided, in spite of the warning that came from their own midst. The foresight Americans were aware of the growing popular demands for the passage of a Bill of Rights on freedom of speech, press and conscience, etc. the revolution that had shortly before started in France encouraged people in these demands.
  In December 1791, the Congress adopted ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of rights. The Bill of Rights enumerated what the government controlled by the obligatory was not going to be allowed to do, which was, of course, an important democratic gin for the people.
  Some of these ten amendments are now relatively unimportant, such as the Third which prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private house in peace-time without the consent of the owners. But others, especially the Fifth Amendment, continue to be of importance and

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