They never wanted the written Bill of Rights, subsequently, to be misused to create new powers of bureaucrats and officials in government to oppress "the People" as they would go about enjoying their various pursuits of "happiness."
“In America, a new people had risen up without king, or princes, or nobles….By calm meditation and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which, in the union of freedom with strength and order, excelled every one known before; and which secured itself against violence and revolution by providing a peaceful method for every needed reform. In the happy morning of their existence as one of the powers of the world, they had chosen Justice as their guide.” - Justice Joseph Story
And they were right! Too bad they failed to understand just how power-hungry the Judiciary would turn out to be.
Multi-culturalism, Radical Feminism; and Gay Marriage have undermined our constitutional foundations. These books and treatises are now sadly relegated to unceremonious sentimentalism.