The US Constitution is a Suicide Pact

The US Constitution is a suicide pact.  It did not start out as one, but it turned into one with unnecessary amendments giving the federal government more power than was ever intended.  To be fair, a litany of bad court decisions furthered this.

i could understand including the Bill of rights, but all of the amendments after the 10th could have been decided congressionally without weaking the foundation of the Constitution.  Yes, adding more amendments does weaken the whole.  Some of these actually went against the intentions of the founders.  The 18th and 21st Amendments show that the process was abused.

The language and intent of many amendments were weakened by compromise-based phrasing and word usage that does not reflect the current lexicon.  Ideally, the US Constitution would be rewritten taking out any ambiguities present in the current version, modernizing certain key terms, making it more concrete, and eliminating most of the amendments (which were never really necessary).

The most destructive amendment might have been the 16th Amendment (authorizing income taxes).  That accelerated the increase in the size and scope of the US government.  The awful Helvering v Davis decision (authorizing unnecessary programs outside the scope of government in the guise of "general welfare" ignoring the prevailing exigent circumstance) and 16th Amendment enabled the New Deal (better to call it the "raw deal") which extended the Great Depression.

More revenue equals more irresponsible spending.  More spending leads to more debt.  Debt begets debt.  Destruction of the US through government largess - i'm starting to think maybe that was the intent.