The late William O. Douglas, the U.S. Supreme Court's longest-serving justice, coined a phrase that rings in many conservative hearts. The purpose of the U.S. Constitution, he once said, is to "keep the government off the backs of people."
This is worth remembering. [The federal and state constitutions] weren't written to tell citizens what to do, but to tell governments what they mustn't do to citizens. Both literally and in spirit, they were written as documents of liberty -- to secure an array of inalienable rights that government simply can't take away.
And though constitutions may seem to "create" rights, in truth they merely recognize those to which every human being is naturally entitled. The documents exist to remind lawmakers and executives that their power to regulate society is limited.
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