Good links Amos. The first one, especially, seems to me to affirm that Bush believes he is the law, and is the only law.

Unfortuantely, our Congress seems unaware of the meaning of the Constitution, and/or unwilling or unable to affirm it meaningfully.

I found the ending of the Essay by Tribe, linked from your second link, among the "interesting:"

"It's about time to take the Constitution seriously rather than playing it for whatever partisan advantage its symbols appear to offer. Durable though the constitutional system has been, and enduring though I have long believed it to be, there's only so much abuse that even it can take without collapsing under the weight of the garbage being heaped on its sturdy but far from invincible frame."

John