The way I read it was more along the lines of "these pesky restrictions on, and delineation of, power and authority are inconvenient".

He was trying to justify scrapping it based on the idea that the Constitution has been ignored to some degree in the past, and the world did not immediately end.

I find this the most dangerous type of thinking, it intentionally crumbles the perceived moral authority of the rule of law in favor of mob rule.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)