Then your voiced support for the Constitution is baseless.
Madison said, Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Ben Franklin was prescient when he stated at the end of the Constitutional Convention:
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to that Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such, because I think a general government necessary for us ; and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered ; and believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall be so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
It is ultimately up to the people to defend their God given, unalienable rights.