Dear anonimous friend, to make your point, you do need to go on... every nation needs to struggle with each of its laws to empower the minority. England, France, Germany, there is a struggle for a varity of rights. Even Sweeden has a struggle for rights of Roma for example - But our amendments, as you call them, are milestones in a struggle which like all human history pushes forwards and falls back. At the moment we are falling back. Quakers and others suffered for the cause of peace here, for generations, and I think that our lambs war created more rights, and had its value. So... are the most empowered the only ones who benifit from Constitutional amendments, well, you will have to go on to prove it... It is too easy to throw a barb and run. As to my fellow Americans, I urge you to add your voices to disprove our guests well meant vocalisation (I agree that America and other partners in the global ecconomic network of pillage create misery and discrimination, but that is not what this post is about friend).
Larry