"The documents are outdated"....Sounds hauntingly similar to the arguments made by government mouthpieces when their functionaries are clearly violating anything in the Bill of Rights.

I call that shit "selective constitutionalism". It goes to the heart of the problem of even using the term "constitutionalism" because really, the main jist of that document was just a determination letter on how the "powers that be" were going to divide up post-revolutionary America among their elected, appointed and inherited governing bodies. They were dragged kicking and screaming into agreeing to the Bill of Rights AFTER it all began to unravel due to every abuse you could imagine.