“Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon.”

An extremely terse starting list of stealthy encroachments on inalienable rights and constitutional provisions would be: compelled compliance, government licenses, victimless crimes, larceny with impunity (2nd plank of the communist manifesto, Social Security, police state confiscations, etc.), alienation of nature's endowed rights, non-recognized perfected allodium ownership, and individual sovereignty being an enemy to the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land.

I'm not sure that "liberally construed" means the same thing today. ;-)