Essay On Constitutional Amendment

ur government and adequately protect the right of its citizens. How un-American? How contrary to the purpose of this document? The founders envisioned a nation where the people could feel safe, secure, and empowered by their government, but this is not the case. Instead, there are entire generations of people now who have contented themselves with their ever growing and ever more powerful government.
The amendment process has another glaring error that is not often discussed, but still holds a notable amount of significance. All amendments must pass through the Congress, which means that their bias will always be able to supersede the wishes of the American people (Rappaport 2010). Thus, any amendment that attempts to restrict federal power, increase state power, or otherwise subvert the power of Congress is likely to be an exercise in futility. This does not fit with our principal of checks and balances; there is no clause that allows states to go over the heads of Congress if they prove to be unwilling to pass an amendment that should otherwise see fruition.

In its original form it indirectly allowed and protected slavery, and although it has been changed, the fact remains that it is imperfect and requires reconsideration and possibly revision as time goes by. The problem is that there is not an easy way to perform this maintenance, which results in it becoming an outmoded and immutable piece of writing. In his book, “Our Undemocratic Constitution”, Sanford Levinson (2006) discusses at length the increasing disparity between the text of the Constitution and our modern idea of what democracy truly is in today’s society. Once again proving, and actually urging for, a need to be able to manipulate the Constitution on a scale that we are not able to in the status quo. The people of the United States want change, and they want tangible change, which is something Article V