We are not in Kansas any longer. Laws are no longer laws and can be ignored, changed, amended as o dark won sees fit. We tend to forget that we NO LONGER LIVE IN a country of laws. WE NOW LIVE IN A LAWLESS COUNTRY.
OH WELL, BY ALL MEANS, LET’S NOT EVEN BOTHER FIGHTING THEM ANYMORE THEN.
In a parliamentary system any one of these recent scandals (Benghazi, fast and furious, NSA, Obamacare waivers, AP, et al.) would have brought down the government and caused an election. Can you imagine Sebelius sitting for question period EVERY DAY and getting grilled by the opposition? Can you imagine Obama being grilled daily in the legislature? Both of them would wither amid shouts for their resignations. Yes, it is theater, but it aids in the democratic process.
No country has the solid basis of laws and governance that the US constitution represents. That is the great strength of the USA. The great weakness is that the federal government has spent 200+ years trying to shred the constitution that limits its power. This present mess has been a long time coming.
Short of revolution or separation, I don't know how you get your constitutional republic back.