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The Bill of Rights was designed specifically to hamstring government.

The Bill of Rights was an afterthought to the elites who met secretly in Philadelphia to draft the U.S. Constitution. It was passed largely to appease the Anti-Federalists who feared the federal government would become to powerful and would violate citizens' rights. History has proved that the Anti-Federalists were correct since the federal judiciary has historically taken a restrictive view of the the Bill of Rights, engaging in "balancing tests" of such rights against "rights" of the government, and even when individuals have such rights, declaring various government actors have "immunity" from suit for violations of constitutional rights. Citizens having rights with no recourse for the their violation is de facto to have no rights at all.