"only if the laws are passed with enough specificity that the interpretation is reasonably unambiguous"

If this isn't the case a court can strike down the law as ambiguous.

"if people vote based on single-issues and/or if surveillance is one of their top few issues"

... but can't the same thing be said of any particular policy? if this policy isn't as important as other policies, that's the public deciding that we're fine with it. you and I as individuals may disagree, but this is the reality we face. it's simply not going to get fixed through legislative action, until and unless we are able to reframe the national conversation sufficiently.