The Constitution of the United States is considered more concise and much older than the constitutions of other nations of the world. Although the United States Constitution is mature, the number of amendments that have been added to it since its creation is very limited. Only twenty-seven amendments, including the Bill of Rights, have been added to the Constitution since its creation. This is not due to the fact that amendments were not proposed, since more than eleven thousand amendments were considered; however, this is because the process of adding an amendment to the Constitution is an extremely long and difficult process. There are only four possible ways to add an amendment to the United States Constitution. Two of these four methods include the process the amendment must go through to be proposed, and the other two methods deal directly with the ratification of the amendment once it has been proposed (Sidlow and Henschen 42). Currently, there are only two specific methods. means of proposing an amendment in hopes of having it ratified into the United States Constitution. The first is to obtain a two-thirds vote for the amendment in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives (Sidlow and Henschen 43). This process is much more difficult than it seems for a variety of reasons related to the Senate and the House of Representatives. A major factor that makes achieving this two-thirds majority difficult is that politicians within these two groups come from different political parties and political backgrounds. Some politicians are Republicans, some Democrats, some conservatives, and some are liberals. This creates a problem when trying to get a two-thirds vote...... middle of paper ...... even then it would be difficult to get three-quarters of the states to agreement to adopt it because three-a-quarter of the states are not in favor of same-sex marriage. Additionally, it might be possible to consider it an individual state issue when it comes to getting it adopted in some states; however, the question of how to manage interstate relations would then come into play and create a difficult obstacle. The majority of society will never agree on the same thing. Many people are content to strictly interpret the constitution rather than apply it to our modern times. The process of ratifying an amendment is so difficult because of the different views of people, not only politicians but the entire population of the United States. Not only is the process difficult, but it is even more difficult to reach an agreement. Works cited by Sidlow, Edward I. and Beth Henschen. GOVERNMENT 5; BOSTON. WADSWORTH, 2014. Print.