Failed Constitutional Amendments

[David Horn]

The worst thing about amending our POS Constitution is the near impossibility of doing it. Amendments can happen if the issue is arcane, mundane and superfluous (Prohibition for instance), or following a traumatic event (the post ACW trio), but not much else passes. Women's suffrage maybe the example that breaks the rule, but gender equality never got near passing.

After 227 years and our journey through the Agricultural-Industrial-Industrial Age transition, we should have a contract totally unrecognizable from the original ... which we obviously don't.