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"Are there no nations in the world other than the U.S. and France?"

None that I much care about.

But a better answer is that all of Europe except Britain and Ireland uses the French Civil Law system (courtesy of Napoleon), and the basic rights in things like private homes under that system is very protected. There are national variations, but they are not all that different.

All of Europe has Parliamentary government of some sort, and in most cases, the final arbiter of the law is Parliament, not a court.

The original poster implied international law colored this decision, and you answered that France had better protection of personal property. So I asked the question, are there no other countries but France and the U.S. Now you expand the world to include Europe, leaving out the balance of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Of course neither French law nor U.S. laws are International Law. Things such as the UN's Universal Declaration of human rights might trump any national protections if it were to be allowed to do so.

As for your criticisms of the U.S. Constitution, there is nothing wrong with the document. There is this thing usually called the separation or balance of powers. The Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of all things as you claim. The rulings of the court can be overturned by Constitutional amendment. The power you write of is being ceded to the courts, it is not given to them by the Constitution.

The lack of resolve to do so is the true source of political outrage you mentioned, by and large. One would expect wrong rulings to be made, or corrupt decisions passed. Such is the nature of imperfect beings who create any government. The problem today is the abandonment of the original understanding of liberty that drives current tax codes, legislation, and jurisprudence. That is the source of our woes, not the Constitution, which if strictly observed would provide the safe harbor we seek as free thinking individuals.