Tag: Unamendable
The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.
When the U.S. Constitution was written, in 1787, it was a startling political novelty, even in an age of constitution-making. Before the Constitutional Convention, James Madison made a study of “ancient and modern confederacies,” but written constitutions were so new that he had hardly any to read. Also, no one had any real idea how long a written constitution would last,