Perhaps I used the wrong word. I’m basically saying the paper does nothing to protect rights. Even the Bill of Rights has federal judges who interpret them to the extreme of basically doing nothing.

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Yes. They can decide interpret the words in ways that are askew from the original meaning, or flat out ignore it.

The "War on Drugs" (i.e. people) is a great example of such abuse of law.