Has the US constitution ever been respected? There's plenty of human rights abuses in the history of the USA, most (not all) of which have been approved by cong

Has the US constitution ever been respected? There's plenty of human rights abuses in the history of the USA, most (not all) of which have been approved by congress. What's a piece of paper to protect people from institutions? If you want human rights for real, you want popular (armed) self-defense against the people in power and their police.