[TED] US Constitution so hard to amend

When it was ratified in 1789, the U.S. Constitution didn't just institute a government by the people. It provided a way for the people to alter the constitution itself. And yet, of the nearly 11,000 amendments proposed in the centuries since, only 27 have succeeded as of 2016.

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So what is it that makes the Constitution so hard to change? In short, its creators. 

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In fact, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once calculated that due to America's representative system of government, it could take as little as 2% of the total population to block an amendment. 


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwREAW4SlVY


https://www.historyonthenet.com/second-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution




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