[thecavemaster]

You're right the constitution is designed to be changed.
I hear Abortion Rights and Gay Rights activists claim that their rights are being violated. However, neither of those rights are listed in the constitution. SO if they wish for those rights, all they need to do is get an amendment passed like the rights of womens and blacks were passed. If they can do that, then no state will be able to deny them the rights they are asking for. However, they know there is no way 38 states in this country would ratify such an amendment. Maybe the Gays can go around beating up more elderly women, that really furthers their cause.

Unless I'm mistaken, a woman's right to vote is not mentioned, freedom from enslavement is not mentioned, freedom from segretation is not specifically mentioned. Then, in light of the ideals spoken in the document, interpretation followed that brought "light" to the ideas of liberty and equality and fairness therein expressed. Let us say 38 states do not ratify a woman's right to vote. Is that the end? No. In a Constutional Democracy, there is more to essential liberty than a showing of hands.