Foreign Suspects

One very interesting part of the U.S. Constitution, a loophole if you will, involves simple geography. The power of the Constitution stops at the border. It has no authority outside of the United States.

All those civil rights protected by the Constitution and its amendments are not protected in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay. Therefore, the U.S. government has the legal authority to do whatever it wants to people. Secret trials, barring suspects from their own secret trials, torture, imprisonment without trial, these are all legal under U.S. law, because U.S. law doesn't apply outside the U.S.. Technically speaking, you could transport a U.S. citizen to another country and torture her to your heart's delight.

The Constitution assumes a basic morality as codified in the Common Law, a morality you and I learn from religion. Without religion, and without the Common Law, the Constitution is effectively useless.

The Constitution is completely useless if it is not enforced, and it is the responsibility of the "People of the United States" to enforce it.