When drafting the Constitution, the framers knew they had to create a document that would give the government enough power to …show more content…
This is a surprising fact considering the Constitution is more than 200 years old and the first ten amendments along with the 27th were all adopted by the first Congress. According to Kermit Roosevelt, a University of Pennsylvania professor of law, the low success rate of Constitutional amendments being ratified is due to the fact that "the founders wanted the bar set high because they believed that most issues should be left to the ordinary political process. A constitutional amendment takes an issue away from the normal process of democratic politics, quite likely forever, so it makes sense to require an extraordinary consensus to resolve it permanently”