I noticed that in your rush to make such a snarky comment, a-hole, that you didn't answer my question. No matter what you call them, they are still AMENDMENTS to the Constitution, without which - as it turns out - the original Constitution would not have been ratified.
I found further research on my own - the ability to do so having resulted from a grade school, middle school, high school, and partial college education - here:
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/rightsof/speech.htm
So you can take your comment and shove it up your back passage.
“take your comment and shove it up your back passage.”
Christain4Bush
Lovely.
So Christian.