The system really should be balanced such that each President gets one nomination per term.

Yeah. I agree that amending should be hard, it shouldn’t be subject to a simple 50%+1 vote count. But a supermajority should be enough. What we have is ridiculous. A supermajority of support is nowhere near enough to pass an amendment. It’s leading to the Supreme Court accruing more and more power in what’s becoming an unaccountable superlegislature. Ironically de facto giving the power to amend the Constitution to a *minority* of voters.

Scalia said this a lot. I’ve read a number of interviews with he him, and he brings it up again and again.