An Amendments Amendment

[minionofmidas]

Philip is right, basically.
Couple of quibbles. An easier amendment process will probably not stop activist judges, if Germany is anything to go by.

[minionofmidas]

You're missing the point a bit, which is not so much that it's too hard to pass amendments, but that it's almost impossible to pass comprehensive amendments that actually change the fundamentals of how the country is governed... resulting in such change occurring anyway without strict basis in constitutional text. Silly things like prohibition or a flag burning ban or whatever are much easier to pass in part because they can be put into a simple amendment that can be slapped onto the end of the text, and that every voter can understand. Putting all the "unwritten Constitution" about the exact role of the Senate in confirmation votes, the way the Hosue and Senate interact, the way presidential electors are chosen and the way they vote, etc etc etc into the written document would be much harder.