Right, that's what phkamp was saying. That the committee was a messy process that produced an artifact that needed to be fixed right out the gate, and didn't get up to a decent standard for a long long time.
Opponents of BofR claimed that was the broken part because it was redundant (and potentially dangerous) to enumerate rights not explicitly granted to the government. Also the built in amendment process allowed the document to adapt as the country evolved, while allowing the highest priority requirements to be met in the first iteration.
