Amendments_To_The_Constitution

Amendments To The Constitution Kathleen Sullivan writes about the recent increase in proposed amendments to the United States’ Constitution and how this could possibly be detrimental to our government in the future. She begins by mentioning how little the constitution has been amended in its history (only 27 times). This, she writes, is due to the level of difficulty that is attributed to this process. Using a system of checks and balances, there are only two ways to ratify an amendment. Either both houses of Congress must agree by a vote of two-thirds or two-thirds of the states may request a constitutional convention. Even after these processes are achieved, three fourths of the states must vote to ratify before the amendment is passed. According to Sullivan, it is this process that has preserved our Constitution’s “purity” and our government’s time tested way of enacting and maintaining laws. Obviously believing that frequent ratification of new amendments is a threat to our system, she gives us five reasons why our Constitution works as it exists today. The first reason Sullivan gives for the Constitution’s continuing success is its stability. By this she means that we can rely on it being constitution, amendments, system, writes, sullivan, set, must, government, forth, amendment, vote, two-thirds, states, specific, rely, ratify, proposed, process, principles, points, out, laws, gives, fourth, flag, courts, constitution’s, congress, change, been, basic, already, according, sullivan