Essay On Amending The Constitution

Amending the Constitution The United States Constitution was ratified by all the original 13 colonies on May 29, 1790 (History.com). The reason for the states feeling the need to create the Constitution was because the states were operating like independent countries instead of a whole unified country. The Constitution was supposed to unite everyone. Today, the Constitution has 27 amendments and through all the changes this country has gone through since it was ratified in 1790, it has continued remain an important staple of our modern government. Though the Constitution has 27 amendments, they were not easy to pass. There are a few difficulties when trying to amend the Constitution. The states have sole power in amending the constitution.

This is a huge issue the parties disagree on. Some believe that “restricting marriage to men/women pairs [is] constitutional” (Herman 28). Others see “how clumsy our conventional conceptual vocabulary is, and how misleading the dichotomous choices between tradition and change” (Herman 28). In other words, people feel that some are so determined to keep up with tradition that they don’t see how the times have changed and are not willing to make a change to catch up with the times. In order for the same-sex marriage law to be amended at least 75% of the states would have to agree on the issue. Another controversial issue where there were issue on passing an amendment was on the issue of slavery. Some states thought that it should be allowed while others thought that it was very unlawful. The only reason that an amendment against slavery was passed was because of the Civil War. “If an amendment, ratified under the stress of these circumstances, is valid, there can be no question of the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment” (Frierson 665). Just like slavery the same-sex marriage debate is a very controversial one that is probably going to go on for a while before the states come to a consensus on the