I think you got it backwards, there. Those are constraints (albeit voluntary) on the individual. The Constitution was intended to define the constraints on the Government.
These powers we grant, and nothing more. (see: 9th and 10th Amendments).
5 posted on 07/05/2011 1:41:35 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)