The founders realized that the constitution is the basis for our laws and government, and therefore, should not be subject to whim.
As an engineer, I see an interesting relationship between the number of years a Congressman holds office, the number a President does, and the number a Senator does...in addition to the number of years a Justice does.
Congress is reactionary, the Presidency is a little less. The Senate, which used to be assigned by the states, even less, and the judiciary even less. The one thing that changes the slowest is the Constitution. By its nature, an amendment takes years to pass and requires more than one Congress (except in rare instances of great urgency).
The founders did not anticipate the Judiciary taking on "Judicial Review" and turning it into Judicial activism.
More important than an amendment to ban abortion or gay marriage, would be an amendment to ban judicial activism.
"The founders did not anticipate the Judiciary taking on "Judicial Review" and turning it into Judicial activism. "
Antifederalist papers warned about the kind of shenanigans we have going on now.