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> Controversial policy cannot and should not become amendments.

The problem with making the Constitution hard to amend as the means of preventing that is that it stops new constitutional provisions that are controversial from being added, but it doesn’t prevent old constitutional provisions that are controversial among the people currently governed by them from remaining. This is why Jefferson thought that laws, including constitutions, needed to automatically sunset to prevent the living being ruled from beyond the grave by the dead.



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