The delegates found their motivation for scrutinizing proposals from political theories of the Enlightenment emphasizing individual human liberties synthesized into property as defined most immediately by John Locke, William Blackstone, and James Madison. Here property was first sourced internally in personal self-protection, opinion, religion, communications, use of abilities to labor physically and mentally, and in conscience. Only through the exercise of those liberties can one acquire the traditional manifestations of property.
The outcome represented an extraordinarily perilous experiment placing primary faith in the inherent natural liberties of imperfect individuals constrained by a limited government; a government requiring members to recognize the dilemma of their own imperfection. Since the emergence of independent colonies and for all time Americans would be defined as sovereign individuals finding their identity in exercising pre-existing intangible liberties within bounds of voluntary self-restraint and accompanied by the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. Their ethnicity, gender, class, and race would always be secondary expressions of humanity.
Nice writing. Of course you know Babylon Bee is a satire site? Even so A+!