I think you'd find very little informed support for that claim about a reasonable balance. The US is on the very far end of rigidity in its political system am

I think you'd find very little informed support for that claim about a reasonable balance. The US is on the very far end of rigidity in its political system among the western nations. Heh, no less a progressive extremist than Antonin Scalia himself said that, if he could amend the constitution, it would be to make it easier to amend.