Dismantling America
-Thomas Sowell
"The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge – to this day – to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood or of books or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php?pageId=192001
It is clearly one of Obama's tactics to rule by administrative order rather than by law.