Wait a minute, you were the one who asserted that Congress has ignored amendments. I simply responded with two amendments that have clearly not been ignored. Your argument was met fairly. But consider this, process amendments are very difficult for Congress to get around. For example, if an amendment were passed that declared all federal regulations null and void if not affirmatively passed by majorities in both houses of Congress, the process would no doubt be observed. Of course that is no guarantee that we might get the outcome we want on every vote but we will have gone a long way toward reforming the system.
Similarly by way of illustration, term limits would certainly be observed and it would be almost impossible for Congress to simply ignore their sell-by dates and run again for another term.
Even those amendments which we both might agree have been observed lately more in the breach have usually stood up for decades until accretions conjured up by the Supreme Court have provided workarounds. But even if it takes 80 years for an amendment to be undermined, that is approximately the length of time between the original Constitution and the Civil War. Why not take the 80 years?
