If I understand US law correctly, the constitution can be amended at will, through a process not exceptionally arduous - certainly more difficult than passing ordinary legislation, but not exceptionally so.
It's orders of magnitude higher in difficulty. We've only amended our Constitution 27 times since 1788, and the first ten were all at once towards the beginning. We've probably passed at least tens of thousands of federal statutes in that time period.
Many other federal states have similarly strict requirements when passing federal legislation, but have gone as far as to rewrite their constitutions from scratch.
The Constitution defines and protects many of our essential civil rights and liberties. Many Americans are loath to allow the current political system to redefine those. Seeing the kind of hash "many other federal states" have made out of simple concepts like freedom of political expression, I'm inclined to think we made a better decision than they did.
It's orders of magnitude higher in difficulty. We've only amended our Constitution 27 times since 1788, and the first ten were all at once towards the beginning. We've probably passed at least tens of thousands of federal statutes in that time period.
Many other federal states have similarly strict requirements when passing federal legislation, but have gone as far as to rewrite their constitutions from scratch.
The Constitution defines and protects many of our essential civil rights and liberties. Many Americans are loath to allow the current political system to redefine those. Seeing the kind of hash "many other federal states" have made out of simple concepts like freedom of political expression, I'm inclined to think we made a better decision than they did.