The Constitution imposes a lot of constraints on the government that make its job more difficult, presumably because those rights would not be protected if it was necessarily to rely on some inherent bit of goodness in bureaucrats.
Let's not forget that the Bill of Rights almost didn't make it into the Constitution and was only really tacked on as an afterthought to shut down anti-Federalist attempts to scuttle the Constitution before it was ratified.
And now several of those 10 Amendments have been eroded/defeated through recent law.
Great job that Constitution is doing us... but I guess it paints that much worse a picture of a country without it.
Right: laws are needed because of an inherent lack of goodness, not because of an inherent lack of common sense. There's a big difference between the two...
A caricatured example would be the serial killer who looks both ways before he crosses the street. We can agree that some of his 'core goodness' is certainly off...but his common sense is spot on.
