Is the Constitution too easy to change? Is it too hard to change?

Madison on Article V: "it guards equally against that extreme facility, which would render the Constitution too mutable; and that extreme difficulty, which might perpetuate its discovered faults."

Although Madison claims the Constitution to be balanced in its stance on ammeding, history and the progression of time has shown that the Constitution proves extremely difficult to change. In the two centuries following 1789, only 27 of 9,746 have been ratified. This statistic is very stunning, although the context of these attempted ammendments may have been worthy of such denial. To be finally passed, an ammendment must undergo a series of voting through the House and Senate as well as ratification by various legislatures and conventions.

While the Constitution should indeed be difficult to ammend to prevent corruption, the right of passage which an ammendment must undergo seems almost unrealistic. Whether this is a blessing or an obstacle is debatable. It seems comforting on some level to know that not just any proposal will be adopted by the document which essentially defines our government, but at the same time it makes you wonder whether many a worthy proposal has been denied by the rigorous selection process.