 Article 5 is the way to change the Constitution. It's the way to get amendments passed because the founders knew that it was an imperfect document. That's one of the things I love about the founders. They were very aware of their own cognitive biases. I don't think they used that word, but they knew that it was imperfect. George Washington wrote his nephew a couple of weeks after the convention and said, this is an imperfect document, but we will improve it. The problem is,