Which is my point: the USC and BOR were designed to protect people from an essentially unlimited government.
They may not DECIDE to blow $10K on a traffic ticket. Or $100K. Or $1 million.
BUT THEY COULD IF THEY SO CHOSE.
That is why infractions should have never come into existence: they are patently against the Constitution.
No human document not even the Constitution as written can be utterly sinproof. Only the Lord is, someone Who was originally present alongside the Constitution but now America has largely jettisoned Him.