Again a matter of perspective. Has the Constitution lost its way, or are actions taking place with which you (and me for that matter) disagree?
The law doesn't always empower us to act the way we want. As for running naked down the street, I was not equating it to any other act other than itself.
There is no weight of law in the Declaration is my point. The Declaration is truly a great document. But I would not go into a court of law and claim that the Declaration of Independence grants me the right to do anything.
"But I would not go into a court of law and claim that the Declaration of Independence grants me the right to do anything."
And that is EXACTLY the problem. The men who started this nation thought that these things would be so freaking obvious that the dimmest person would be able to grasp the concepts laid out. They didn't even bother saying that the citizens had the right to their own life, they thought it to be THAT obvious. Some even fought against the Bill of Rights, fearing that they would be considered an enumeration, a list, of rights, and it turns out that they were both right and wrong. I shudder to think of how far we would have fallen if the BoR wasn't there. (The right to life doesn't show up until the 14th Amendment's ratification in 1868, by the way). They never concieved that a person would be stripped of their life by judicial fiat after they had set the nation upon its course.
If you read the history of that time, you will find that the Founders literally hanged judges for this very reason. Judges that had 'followed the law' to the letter.
The Constitution hasn't lost its way, we have. Legions of lawyers and judges have beseiged it, and twisted its words, read certain portions out of it by their 'legal opinions', and generally made mockery of it.
Yeah, I'm a true believer in the meaning of the Founders words. Too bad I seem to be in a minority, now.