Originally Posted by
Seneca Pilot
Read The Federalist. The framers intentionally structured the government to make it hard to do things. The fear (correct in my opinion) was that if it was easy to "move forward more than three inches a year" one side or the other would take power and completely change the structure of things to the detriment of the other side. The intent was a super majority to be necessary to make structural changes.
I didn’t word that correctly, I meant more than three steps a year because BOTH sides compromised and agreed on the result....not that one side rammed it down the other side’s throat.