To reduce the amount of aliens that have committed violations during re-entry, the United States Sentencing Commission published proposed amendments to sentencing guidelines that would affect aliens convicted of re-entry violations. The first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791. Many proposed amendments to the Constitution never reach ratification. The Framers, the men who wrote the Constitution, wanted the amendment process to be difficult. They believed that a long and complicated amendment process would help create stability in the United States. Amendment makes it possible to achieve peaceful constitutional change without incurring the costs of its unappealing alternatives: either governing with a flawed constitution unsuited to the times or mounting a revolution accompanied perhaps by violence and the need to start from scratch. A balanced budget amendment is a constitutional rule requiring that a state cannot spend more than its income. It requires a balance between the projected receipts and expenditures of the government. The Fourteenth Amendment was the most controversial and far-reaching of these three Reconstruction Amendments. No amendment under this section shall be authorized within five years following the ratification of this Constitution nor oftener than once every five years thereafter.