[rollo tomasi]

"...the US Constitution was crafted to prevent the erosion of true rights by allowing politicians, ie demagogues, to substitute fiat "rights' in their place."

No, the Constitution was crafted out of a compromise based on competing ideas.

For example, the Necessary and Proper Clause was one such compromise which resulted in the actual breakdown of the Republic/fiscal restraint/regulatory nightmares. Case law is just a symptom of what was already present in the Constitution.

[Jacquerie]

The Constitution was designed to implement the tenets of the Declaration. It did.