It would be a good thing to remind some folks around here that when the ink on the Constitution was still damp, this nation had things such a debtors prisons! One of the signers of the DoI and the money man who financed the Revolution, Robert Morris, ended up in one of those stinking holes. There was no grace period for delinquent taxes --- pay now or the sheriff puts you off the land and a speculator picks it up. Property speculation was rampant and totally unscrupulous. Even Daniel Boone was swindled out of his property in Kentucky in the years after the Revolution. Many poor farmers in the old Southwest were ruined by swindlers when the big cotton plantation owners decided to expand. Laws and the rule of law were still a hit or miss thing in those days. Freedom was broad for both the honest and the dishonest, but security, property rights, and the predictability that makes lasting prosperity possible were scarce. Enter the law, which like speed limits, so many seem to despise. They need to consider what their life would be like without those protections.
Walt