What’s the Point of the Constitution?

By Darrell Cheney

The immediate reactions and emotion surrounding President Barack Obama’s latest round of executive actions (notice how no one calls them executive orders anymore) have subsided.

Much ink and hot air have been used to both excoriate and defend the president and the nation has once again been whipped into a terribly divided people.

Other columns will tell you that he’s infringing on a constitutional right, that the facts don’t bear out his conclusion, that he’s a hypocrite because of his stance on abortion, and so on. They all tell you how it is bad, and they are probably right, but they don’t tell you why.

So yes, his executive actions on guns are unconstitutional, we understand that. But why is that bad? What makes the Constitution so sacred that nothing can be done on gun control?

To understand why this is bad, we would have to first understand the value of the Constitution. One big question, which is not addressed nearly enough in political discourse, is this:

What’s the point of the Constitution?

This question is the difference between …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze