(09-26-2020, 03:12 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-26-2020, 08:46 AM)mikesez Wrote: I think you're misunderstanding.  George Washington though we would be amending the constitution frequently.  But we can't.  The framers accidentally made it too hard to amend the Constitution. Yes, RBG and judges like her have been basically making stuff up with regard to what the Constitution says. They are "amending" it for us. Personally, I don't usually agree with how they chose to amend it, but that's not the point. As technology and society change it does need updates. If it was easier for We the People to update it, people like RBG would not have had the opportunity to do what they did.

So what is your source for your alternate reality?

The farewell address.

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(09-26-2020, 03:15 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-26-2020, 11:23 AM)mikesez Wrote: It's too hard to start and too hard to finish.
It should start automatically whenever the supreme Court strikes a law down.
Or it should start at regular intervals, maybe once every 10 years.
The founders thought that the state governments would petition the federal government to start the process. They wrote in article V, that if two thirds of the States ever signed on to such a petition, a process to amend would start. A time and a place for a convention would be set, and delegates would be sent from all states.
even though it's really hard to get 34 states to agree on something, it has actually happened! US Congress has received petitions from 34 different states, for a balanced budget amendment, and term limits. Yet the petitions were ignored and the convention never took place.
The amendment process simply doesn't work.

That is exactly how it should work.  On top of that is another reason why senators should not be chosen directly by the vote of the people.

I agree that having the people vote for senators directly really undermines how the constitution was supposed to work.
But the previous system was worse, especially because back then most state legislatures had situations where one guy's farm would get two state legislators, and the whole city of Atlanta would get three.

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