Byzconia wrote:The fact that it's also so extremely hard to amend only adds to the problems (the provision of amendments made a lot more sense with 13 states than it does with 50).
Amendments being a difficult and grueling endeavor is much better than them being easy. Over the course of seventeen amendments (excluding the Bill of Rights, which are a bit unique), we've only got one dud: Prohibition. If it were an easy process, there'd be many more duds and nonsense amendments.
The process being as it is - three-quarters of the House and the Senate, then three-quarters of the states themselves - deters most nonsense and (mostly) ensures that any amendment that actually gets passed is one that most people want, and one that at least does what it sets out to do. Sure, it's a little unwieldy given the amount of Representatives, Senators, and state legislatures, but there's not really a better option here.