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As you may have noticed, whether by design or social context or both, constitutional amendments are essentially impossible to pass.

>>PaulDa+(OP)
What I've noticed is that we have nearly thirty of them, and two of them were passed in my lifetime.

>>stonog+ed
The timeline looks like this:

http://www.paufler.net/brettrants/161_amendments_graphs.html

I wouldn't consider that indicative of the ease of passing an amendment. Perhaps you do. It appears to require an increasingly-hard-to-get combination of (1) widespread agreement that a problem requiring an amendment exists and (2) widespread agreement on what the nature of the amendment should be.