The Constitution and the ideas on which it rests was influenced in large part by the Christian idea of 'Original Sin'. That we are imperfect/corrupt/sinful. A well-known phrase reflects this: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." I don't recall who said this. It's the basic idea that matters. Whereas many held the position that people are basically good and any evil that results is an aberration. Governments founded on this latter principle have not done too well.
I believe it was Lord Acton who said 'Absolute Poewer corrupts absolutely'. But I don't deny the Christian basis. I just deny the Ten Commandments as being any sort of meaningful legal precedent. The two that are law (The prohobitions against killing and stealing) actually predate The Ten Commandments going back to the code of Hummarabi which many legal scholars say is one of the three primary influences on the Constitution along with the Magna Carta and English Common Law.
Lord Acton.