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Ideally yes, and sometimes they are. But a constitution needs to be hard to change, otherwise they're basically pointless. For example, here in Norway a change to the constitution requires a 2/3 majority in the parliament, twice, with en election between the two votes. And that's easy, compared to what it takes to change the US constitution. Fun fact: The last amendment to the US constitution was #27, back in 1992, and it took 202 years and 223 days to be ratified by enough states to go into effect. (That was a very special case though. The 26th was ratified in a mere 100 days, back in 1971.) Another issue is that the loopholes aren't always apparent in advance.