You know that when the our current Constitution was being considered, the so-called "anti-federalists" warned that it would never work. They said, "Yeah, it's nice that the Constitution contains safeguards against tyranny, but where's the enforcement mechanism?"
It's scary and spooky to read the "Anti-Federalist Papers", because every bad thing that they predicted would happen if the Constitution were adopted has, in fact, come to pass.
RE: Political Mythology 101 (Part One)