The United States Constitution is considered to be more concise as well as much older than the constitutions of other nations worldwide. Although the United States Constitution is mature, there are such a limited number of amendments that have been added to the Constitution since it was created. Only twenty-seven amendments, including the Bill of Rights, have been added to the Constitution since its creation. This is not due to amendments not being suggested, because over eleven thousand amendments have been contemplated; however, this is because the process of adding an amendment to the Constitution is an extremely long and difficult process. There are only four possible ways that an amendment can be added to the United States Constitution. Two of these four ways include the process that the amendment needs to go through to be proposed, and the other two ways deal directly with ratifying the amendment once it has been proposed (Sidlow, and Henschen 42).
Currently, there are only two specific ways to propose an amendment in hopes of getting it ratified into the United States Constitution. The first way includes obtaining a two-thirds vote for the amendment in both the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives (Sidlow, and Henschen 43). This process is much harder than it seems because of various reasons dealing with the Senate and the House of Representatives. One major factor that makes obtaining this two-thirds vote challenging is that the politicians within these two groups come from various political parties and political backgrounds. Some politicians are republicans, some democrats, some conservative, and some of them are liberal. This creates a problem when attempting to achieve a two-thirds vote....
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...ven then it would be hard to have three-fourths of the states agree to pass it because three-fourths of the states are not for same sex marriage. Also, looking at it as an individual state matter could be possible when it comes to getting it passed in certain states; however, then the matter of how to deal with interstate relations would come into play and create a difficult road bump. The majority of society will never agree on the same thing. Many people are stuck strictly interpreting the constitution rather than applying it to modern day. The process of ratifying an amendment is so difficult because of the various views of people, not only those in politics but the entire United States population. Not only is the process hard, but coming to an agreement is even harder.
Works Cited
Sidlow, Edward I., and Beth Henschen. GOVT 5; BOSTON. WADSWORTH, 2014. Print.
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