We have dumbed down two generations of people . . Few if any of them know what the Constitution says or can relate the Bill of Rights (Amendments to the Constitution) to it . . Nor do they understand what most of the amendments define . .
Even 50 years ago, if the then president (whoever it might have been) had gotten up in front of the country and made the Statement Obama did when castigating the Supreme Court about declaring "His" Medical Care Law as "Unconstitutional, something they had no right to do, the population would have marched on Washington and hung his ass in the moonlight . .
Today, few understood what he said, some, probably most, thought he was correct, (which was his intent) and the few who know the Government structure of 3 branches and checks and balances just gritted their teeth or, like you and I, pissed and moaned . . .