[A CA Guy]

You don't understand then the reasoning of the Congress as to why they DON'T add a ton of amendments to the Constitution.
On their own website, the Congress says we re-interpret the Constitution for modern times because if they added a ton of amendments, you would end up with a worthless Constitution buried in paper that would have lost it's Historic significance as our foundation.

Rather than make the Constitution insignificant through endless amendments, they re-interpret with the courts being the last word most often as to what is acceptable.

You are saying you prefer the concept of 4,500 amendments to the constitution, well, go for it and get that passed if that is the preference. You most certainly will never remove restrictions of some needed kind in a population where the freedoms of many individuals are at stake and not just your.

If you want nearly no laws, go move to an island and declare yourself the Grand-Poo-Ba!

[Mike4Freedom]

You are saying you prefer the concept of 4,500 amendments to the constitution,

Of course I don't want 4,500 amendments. What I want is a government that understands that there are things they may not do.

The whole idea of our founders, an idea that I thought was the basis of conservative thought, is that the people set up a government for certain limited purposes and wanted to make sure that the government, with access to force to achieve its ends, never exceeded those limits. This is necessary to prevent tyranny.

Even our elected officials must be limited by this highest law, which is very hard to amend-on purpose, or we will have a tyranny of the majority.

Otherwise, we might have some temporary majority of people who make less than some arbitrary definition of "rich" deciding to take all or most of the money of that minority who make over that number, the "evil rich". The constitution was supposed to protect the minority from that.

Or maybe the white majority decides to put the black or Arab minority in camps (for their protection, of course) or all sorts of horrible things that you could imagine.

There are plenty of unconstitutional things going on right now, including the War on Drugs, all manner of social programs, civil forfeiture without due process, no-knock searches, gun control, etc that would not happen if the constitution was obeyed. I would not be happy if each of these was an amendment, but at least they would have had to sell each individually through all the obstacles provided for amendment and this would have slowed down our decent into tryanny, if not stopped it altogether.