There’s never a time when natural rights are not under attack. Putting it in writing, however, solidifies a top-down attack thereupon by the government, particularly by allowing “the provisions of general laws” to nullify them plus rendering the rights in “positive” language.
Right. The threat is always present - and executed. By elected representatives, who can be removed at the next election, or by not elected judges (and those do write stuff - and their case law is already put in writing - Roe v. Wade ring a bell?).
Now imagine an USSC fully staffed by Clinton/Obama, no voter has a say whatsoever... 9:0...for decades to come... choose your poison...
About that "putting it in writing" - again: Different basic law concepts, but the outcomes are often similar. The remedies, perhaps not so much.