(09-26-2020, 04:03 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-26-2020, 03:44 PM)mikesez Wrote: The farewell address.

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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.

Frequently amending The Constitution?  I don't think so.

The framers "accidentally" made it difficult?  LOL.  

"If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. "

For my entire life, the opinion of the people has been that the distribution or modification of the Constitutional Powers is wrong. 
George Washington felt that, if it ever came to this, it would be not just prudent but actually possible to amend the Constitution.
He might not have thought it would happen frequently, but he did think that we would be able to deal with it when it happened.
Yet it has been amended once in 50 years.
Washington and the other framers did not foresee how difficult it would be to get 50 states on the same page without any regular process for discussing amendments.

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