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Why did the Founding Fathers want to make it hard to make laws? Discuss why you think it is or isn’t a good that they did?

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The Amendment Process for the US Constitution is a difficult one, and it was designed to be so. The Founding Fathers believed that the Constitution should be intentionally difficult to amend, so that it isn't subject to the political whims of the day, and that the Constitution should remain the higher law of the land.
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