Comment by pixl97
9 months ago
Because the people 250 years ago could not have imagined the problems that we'd have invented for ourselves in these days. It was always meant to be a living document with a process of adding and changing amendments. And in between that time the the way people interact has grown more complex. If you took those same intelligent men and dropped them into today, the Amendments would look different.
If only they made a process to change it…
Good luck amending the constitution these days. We can't even pass an amendment that says that women have the same rights as men.
An amendment process that in practice is impossible to exercise is just as good as having no amendment process at all.
That’s not an excuse for circumventing it, obviously.