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As a state Senator in Illinois, President Obama gave an interview to a local radio station where he was discussing civil rights and the courts, and it moved into a conversation on the Constitution. Obama, a supposed Constitutional scholar, did not spend much time in praise of the first of its kind, one of a kind document. Rather, he derided it. In the 2001 radio interview Obama specifically stated that the problem with the Constitution is that it is a grouping of negative liberties. Paraphrasing, he said the Constitution states what government can not do to you instead of what the government must do for you.
The Constitutional scholar has a problem with the basic tenets of the Constitution, as his entire basis (home life, college, spiritual adviser) put forth a competing (failed) theory of how the world should work. The Constitution, based on the concept of Natural Laws as described in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness says man should be able to live without being told how to live (by a King or a centralized government.) Obama states that government should do more for people, which historically comes at a Freedom Cost.