[ncallaway]

The more sclerotic the Constitution becomes, the more likely it is to have the entire system overturned and replaced wholesale.

If you try to make the Constitution unamendable, you guarantee that the Republic that is founded on the Constitution will eventually fail.

I can't think of a worse idea for the long-term health of the Republic.

[moduspol]

If it were easy to change, there would be no purpose to having a Constitution.

[pasc1878]

There is a great difference between immutable and difficult to change.

Do you want to be in a US without the Fourteenth Amendment?

Actually it strictly immutable without any of the Amendments, no 1st, 2nd etc.

[moduspol]

I think ratification by 2/3 of states fairly meets the definition of "difficult to change, but not immutable."

That it's been done numerous times in the past suggests it is quite far from immutable.