List of amendments to the United States Constitution
This page is a list of the amendments to the United States Constitution.  Since the Constitution went into effect on March 4, 1789, twenty-seven amendments have been added to the Constitution.  This page gives just a short summary of each of these amendments.  For more information about each amendment, click on the links in the box at the right of this page.  The amendments are numbered in Roman numerals from I (One) to XXVII (Twenty-seven).