The Constitution is a limitation not alone upon the government. It is a limitation on the people, on us. Sometimes it keeps us from doing what we would like to do. That is the purpose of a Constitution. That is the essential meaning of limited government.
Courts can give warning of danger.
But they are really powerless to protect us from ourselves. They can remind us of our heritage. But they cannot preserve that heritage for us. It is a society in which there is respect for privacy, respect for individuality. What we have to remember above all else as a self-governing society is that it is we, the people, who must be controlled.