We have the power to amend the Constitution Luis. We were given that in the document itself but there is a prescribed procedure to follow so edicts from on high won't cut it!
To properly understand what the Constitution means require a maximum of two things! The ability to read and properly interpret the English language as it was used at the time the document was written and the ability to define the intent of the writers from the historical record of the writing of the document.
Once again, that is YOUR interpretation of what constitutes understanding the Constitution.
You have no more right than anyone else to decide what constitutes interpreting the Constitution, and that's the point.
The intent of the writers is arguably a guideline, but the writers themselves had differing opinions on what the document meant.
The issue at hand is exactly
whose understanding to use when fixing the meaning of the Constitution. The people responsible for drafting the document? The delegates who actually ratified it? Or the American people in whose name they drafted and ratified it?
Those were all very differing opinions, even at the time of drafting and ratification.
Conservatives at large tend to use Madison's Federalist Papers to divine the Founder's intent, and that seems to make sense seeing as to how it was Madison who drafted the document and Madison sho is called the Father of the Constitution, but in fact Madison LOST the fight over the power structure set in place by the Constitution.
The ONE thing Madison and his opponents all agreed on was that the people wee sovereign, and that the Constitution was crafted in behalf of the people, not to rule over the people, so when you say that we have the power to amend the Constitution, you're only partially correct.
As a sovereign people, we also have the power to overturn it.