Within Constitutional Constraint

Barack Hussein Obama intends to expand his use of executive orders because he believes the opposition that he has faced in the normal legislative process has stymied realizing some of his objectives. Obama, as he asserts, does have "a pen and a phone" and the normal powers exercised by previous US Presidents, but he is not empowered to be a dictator. Obama is taking an expansive view of his authority but the other co-equal branches of government and American citizens must hold him to account to act only within the parameters of law. In cases where Obama overreaches, it is essential that those with standing to contest his actions in the courts assert their rights and that the judiciary uphold individual liberty over the aims of the Obama collective as the Constitution demands.