As of 2015, Mexico and Chile are the only two Latin American countries yet to formally recognize their Afro-Latin American population in their constitutions. This is in contrast to countries like Brazil and Colombia that lay out the constitutional rights of their African-descendant population.
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A "Formal Amendment" is one that actually adds to or changes the US Constitution. It is ratified by the states and becomes law.
<span>An "informal amendment"is a change to the meaning or interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. There is no real informal way to change the Constitution, and it's not an actual change to the wording of the Constitution; rather, it's the way we perceive the Constitution that changes. </span>
<span>The one that comes to mind is the equal rights amendment (1972) - which prohibits the inequality of men and women. Opponents say that the amendment is no longer needed, as the issues are already law</span>
The efforts of Dorothea Dix changed the living conditions of the mentally ill from prisons to hospitals. She was an American activist on behalf of the poor people suffering from insanity whom she ended up creating asylums for. She did this through several strong programs of lobbying state legislatures and doing this through the United States Congress.
They wanted to be slave state and southern did not want that