How many amendments to the constitution have been formally proposed in congress in u. s. history?

a) the colonists began to see themselves as different from people in britain.

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.