yeah let's elect TWO separate but equal legislatures to jerk each other off over what legislation to pass, great idea western man
no I'm not mad I just learned that Virginia would have had recreational marijuana sales in 2022 if it were up to their senate, BUT WOOPS
From what I remember, most nations in Europe had a bicameral system at their inception, since they were seen as a way to compromise between the aristocracy and the urban petty bougs / commoners. Honestly I think that the only thing keeping bicameral systems alive in the anglo-sphere is the fact that their constitutions are deliberately made almost impossible to amend. Not like the Danish one is particularly easy, but the american system seems unneccessarily bird-brained.
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eh, I'd give it at most 15 years before another amendment is on the table. It's probably going to be Christo-fascist, but there will be changes to the document. Whether it will be that Christianity is the only religion permitted, or that atheism is outlawed, or that being gay is punishable by imprisonment/death, is up to the hogs.
They would never put something like that up through an even remotely democratic filter. That's the whole reason they launched a decades-long campaign to capture the federal judiciary; now they can rewrite huge swaths of the constitution from the bench.
A significant change to the US constitution has not been since the mid 1960s. There was a weird amendment in the late 80s that was I think about congressional pay but it was pretty inconsequential.
So that means for everyone on this site, we have not seen a significant change to the US constitution happen our and for a lot of us, there have been zero changes, big or small, in our lifetimes. And a lot of Americans see this as a good thing.