The Founding Lawyers never wanted to protect liberty if they did they would have done so. Everything the government is doing to us today is perfectly Constitutional.
They are just getting us used to the fact that we are no longer governed by the constitution, when we sign on to Kyoto, it will be complete.
Did you know that it only takes two senators and the president to ratify a treaty and that a treaty has equal legal footing with the Constitution itself.
Thats where all the enviromental authority comes from. People have been prosecuted and convicted of duck hunting by the Feds for essentially violating a treaty we signed with Britian !! No consent of the governed required.