Something must have intervened after 1817
Yes, society's understanding of the Constitution went from bad to worse. One major turning point came during the Great Depression, when the Supreme Court changed its mind on the meaning of the Commerce Clause due to political pressure from Roosevelt.
I'm not very clear what your citation has to do with the Draft, and with Internment--the two subjects I raised.
Would you comment as to why you would object to the Draft, if doing so spelled GREAT peril to National Security?
The fundamental principle involved is that one person's need, no matter how dire, justifies his violating the rights of someone else. My need for cash, no matter how dire, does not justify my taking it out of your bank account without your consent. My need for a heart transplant does not justify my taking your son's heart out of his chest. My need for self defense does not justify my forcing you to serve as a personal guard or police force.
If the needs of one person do jot justify violation of the rights of others, then the same is true of any group of persons, even society as a whole. No group can have any rights that none of its members possess as individualsj, because the rights of any group derive solely from the individual memebers.