Responses

1. Did the founding fathers intend for the Constitution to last until today, or did they expect that it would be revised/rewritten?


I believe that they were creating under the impression that it would not be changed.  It was a document that would uphold the rules for a whole nation.  And although they did not want it to be altered, i think that they left it somewhat vague and with more generalizations than specific situations so that over time it could be interpreted differently.


2.  How is it that the Constitution has been changed so few times over such a long period?"  

I think that it has only been changed a few times because when it was written, it was written with the intention of upholding order for a whole country no matter what.  It is a moral standard to follow and while technology changes, people havnt changed that much.  Not many changes have been needed because the founding fathers did a pretty good job of writing rules.