How Do I Liberate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

[Undertoad]

Staying in the real world here, if you don't appear on a summons and kill the people who come to retrieve you, you can expect that the state will bring all of its resources to bear, and you will eventually either be killed or jailed for life.

The absurd sterilization case is interesting because, if it were to somehow pass tomorrow, without the consent of most of society, it would be ignored by almost everyone with a role to play in the system. The cops can choose not to arrest people breaking the law. The prosecutors can choose not to prosecute the arrestees. The judges can choose not to apply the law, or to apply a light sentence. The jury can decide not to convict. The whole thing can go through appeals or be thrown out on technicalities.

The application of the law requires a lot of people to buy into it one way or the other and almost any of them can dismiss any case very easily. I can predict that none of them, however, would buy into the notion that the Constitution operates the way you think it does and not the way they think it does. No matter how sure of your convictions you are, how eloquent your defense, etc. the law will apply to you the way they think it does, not the way you think it does.