Good start.
The Constitution created a government, that Constitution granted powers to a national government, and set rules that we were all willing to live under.
It did things like cede lawful authority to settle issues via a national Court system, to create a forum where the individual States would assemble and enact laws for all of us, etc...in other words, in writing the Constitution, the "willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do" was set in place for the United States by the people of the United States.
Right or wrong?
It did things like cede lawful authority to settle issues via a national Court system, to create a forum where the individual States would assemble and enact laws for all of us, etc...in other words, in writing the Constitution, the "willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do" was set in place for the United States by the people of the United States.
Right or wrong?"
Wrong. Again.
The system was set up to retain the greatest possible amount of freedom to the individuals. It also gave power to the states to determine how much authority they wanted to give their state and local governments. That is what the constitution set up. It definitely did NOT give any government "a great deal of discretion about what you do". That would only be done later by the states, and ultimately, the citizens of those states via their local and state governments, and they would determine the amount of authority those governments would have.
It has been recognized since time immemorial that maintaing order requires that people cede to lawful authority some of their descretion about what they do. Rudy's usage of the term "great deal" seems to demand a much broader concession of liberty.