"What? • A constitutional amendment alters the content of a constitutional text in a formal way... Why? • Constitutions need to be amended o ver time to adjust provisions that are inadequate, to respond to new needs, including supplementing rights, etc. Otherwise, the text of a constitution cannot reflect social realities and political needs over time. Yet the constitution also needs to be protected from short-sighted or partisan amendments... Why not? • Some form of formal amendment procedures are a near-universal feature of contemporary constitutions. Thus, for constitution- makers, the relevant question is not so much whether there should be a provision addressing formal amendments, but what needs to be considered while drafting it... Where? • All democratic countries in the world have a provision in their constitution regulating the conditions for amending it."