The quote 'berto added above sums up the reasoning behind the Bill of Rights pretty succinctly (an with lesser verbage than it would take me!), so thanks dude

The deal is this pulse, the Constitution was written in such a way as to cover "most" contentions that could ever arise, with a clearly defined amendment process to cover any necessary changes that could come to pass once it was adopted as the law of the land.

So, once it was officially accepted as our over arching national system of laws, it was meant to be exactly that, unless and until changes would be made through the only 2 channels enumerated for doing so.

The problem for myself and many others is that we consider the Constitution as the absolute bedrock of our system of law and refuse to accept usurpation of its enumerated powers, nor any over riding of its systems of checks and balances, UNLESS such changes occur through the required process.

Once any one of the 3 branches of the federal government oversteps its authority clearly laid out in the Constitution, we are really no longer a "nation of laws" and it's only a few short steps from that point until the entire basis of our system of governance is subverted, leading to anarchy.