That ethos is clearest, distilled, in a document I recommend you go immediately a re-read: the Declaration of Independence.
In that wondrously unique document the primal basis of laws are "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God". Not legislative process, no matter how orderly.
Pay close attention to this paragraph from that marvelous work of humans:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.Not just wholly reform, wholly abolish, wholly rebel, which is as our Founders ended up by circumstance and necessity doing. A man, men, have a duty to "alter" destructive forms of government.
And again and again in American History our greatest citizens and patriots have stood up like men to do so.
I can go on with examples for weeks, so I believe, but none will sway a bull-headed person set to deny that aspect of being an American.
By your posts you seem far from that genuine AMERICAN ethos.
Wow, because I think that entities created by statute by Congress should follow Congress’ laws, I’m at odd with the Founders’ vision for the country? Amazing.
Allowing each and every civil servant to divine their own interpretation of the Constitution, without regard for the laws as passed by Congress and reviewed by the Supreme Court is asking for a form of anarchy, where civil servants each become a law unto themselves.
Sorry, I ain’t buying that as what the Founders intended. Get off your high horse and admit that you are only in favor of letting civil servants interpret the Constitution when their interpretation matches yours.