There seems to be a consensus among the legal profession that materialism is the official state religion of the United States but there was once a similar consensus that a black man has no rights that a white man must respect. Legal consensus tends to change over time.
Well now, just ‘a cause you ‘n me can’t find it in thet there Constitution thing don’t mean it ain’t real. You ‘n me is just too stupid to read them there nuances thet’s in that old dusty document. We ‘uns need to let our betters on the East Coast that went to them fancy schools tell us what’s in it, and we ‘uns just keep our toothless yaps shut.