[highlander_UW]

It is subject to abuse, but IMHO it is necessary in order to protect our rights. The main opposition to the Bill of Rights was that it could be construed to be all of our rights, thus th 9th Amendment.

I think you're probably correct, but it's not reassuring given the apparent propensity of the current administration to view the constitution as a flexible and even still an undesirable constraint instead of a framework to work within.

[djsherin]

I don’t think they even view as a restraint at all. Did you hear Geithner getting asked 4 or 5 times about where he gets the Constitutional authority to do what he’s doing? He obviously believes anything Congress does is Constitutional.

Obama doesn’t care about the Constitution, but then again I would make the case that very few of the presidents in the last 100 (or more) years have cared about the Constitution.