Wrong? I didn't say they were wrong, I was just explaining why it doesn't make any sense to me to say "change it."

There is a process for amending the constitution, and it has been used, in the past, a lot. They banned booze and then put it back, changed the voting age, changed the start date of the presidency, changed when congressional raises take place - from the sublime to the picayune. I doubt we'll ever see another change - there are a lot of reasons, but mostly I think the "ruling class" has lost the confidence of the voting public to the point that nobody would trust them to tamper with the constitution again.

IIRC not much has ever been done, amendment-wise, around the BOR - which is really a short name for the first 10 amendments to the constitution. The Supreme court occasionally "finds" things in the constitution when they're ruling on laws - the "right to abortion" was famously found in the 4th Amendment's right to privacy. (I never understood that.)

Recently, for example, the Supreme's clearly came out and recognized the second (right to bear arms) as an individual right. So the understanding of the constitution is not static.

People, even Americans (sadly), don't understand how that part of our society works. Federalism is another area where stuff happens in America that makes perfect sense to us but baffles the rest of the world.

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