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7.How many amendments does the Constitution have?
7.憲法有多少條修正案？
Answer: Twenty-seven (27)
答案：27條
Explanation: When the Founding Fathers (or the men who made the U.S. government) wrote the Constitution in 1787,
解釋：美國開國元勛們（或者說是成立美國政府的人）在1787年撰寫憲法的時候，
they wanted a government that would grow and change as America grew and changed.
就希望政府能夠隨著美國的發展而發展。
Everything they had written seemed like a good idea,
他們寫下的所有內容似乎都是好想法，
but they knew that people might need or want to change parts of the Constitution later.
但他們知道后人可能需要改變部分憲法。
The Founding Fathers wanted their new government to last a long time,
美國開國元勛們希望他們的新政府能長久存在下去，
and allowing Constitutional Amendments was their way to make sure that the government could change to meet the changing country's needs.
所以允許憲法修正案是他們的一種手段，該手段確保政府能順應不斷改變的國家需要。
The word amendment comes from the verb to amend, which means to change something, so an amendment is a change to the Constitution.
“Amendment”一詞源自動詞“修正”，它是改變某事的意思，因此，修正案就是對憲法的修改。
Because the Constitution is always changing and being reinterpreted (or read again and understood differently),
因為憲法總是在發生變化和被重新詮釋（或者說再次解讀并以不同的方式理解），
many people call it a "living document."
因此，很多人稱之為“活文件”。
Amendments are added to the Constitution for many reasons:
在憲法中添加修正案的原因有很多：
to overrule (or cancel or undo) a decision made by the Supreme Court (the highest court of the United States),
諸如推翻最高法院的裁決，
to change something that was written in the Constitution, or to change something in society.
改變憲法中的某些條款，或改變社會中的某事。
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