&gt; Although Snowden&#x27;s lawyer claims the Bill of Rights was supposed to make the government&#x27;s job &quot;more difficult,&quot; he is missing a larger point: almost all of what the federal government does today is not it&#x27;s job at all!<p>I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s missing the point. I think he is <i>making</i> the point that, even to the extent that government is serving legitimate purposes through powers that are unquestionably delegated to it in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights is intended to constrain the power of the government in ways which make it take more effort, because the alternative which leaves the governments job easier when it is well motivated also makes the government more dangerous when it has poor motives, both by endangering the innocent as targets of government action <i>and</i> by making it easier for the government to <i>seem</i> to be taking appropriate action while it neglects the real needs of the populace.<p>Due process protections make the government <i>demonstrate</i> that it is taking action against the right parties when it takes certain actions.