A Constitutional argument with a friend

Laws and regulations, T., result from our Constitutionally-prescribed system of checks and balances, of the divided government proposed by the so-called Founding Fathers in the 1780s. You know - The Legislative, which enacts laws, The Judicial, which interprets the laws, and The Executive. (The latter has become a sort of imperial presidency, but was not originally intended to be THAT bad.) You can take issue with particular laws and regulations. But the method by which they were adopted, ideally at least, is outlined in the Constitution. If you object to Plessy v. Ferguson's finding that De Jure segregation was justifiable, and you believe instead that 1954's Brown v. Board of Education was the right decision, then you to some degree implicitly recognize that some laws, at least in theory, are beneficial. If you supported the passage of the (so-called) Affordable Care Act, then you implicitly recognize that some degree of regulation is at least permissible - the thing is thousands and thousands of pages long! Obama Care is pretty clearly a bureaucratic excess; I agree with you to THAT extent.)