Excerpt from Balanced Budget Amendment-S. J. Res. 41: Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on S. J. Res. 41, a Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to Require a Balanced Budget It is also not surprising in this age of sound bite analysis that the people would, therefore, be attracted to such a seemingly sim ple solution, but no matter how understandably seductive this measure might be, amending the Constitution is a step that cannot be lightly taken. Indeed, in the past 200 years, that sparse document has only been amended 17 times following the adoption of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, and that is a record that is not accidental. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.