The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). …

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry …

Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.