Let me spell it out for you Pop. Semper F'ing Fi to the............. CONSTITUTION. Also, remember that HBO series on John Adams? "We are a nation of laws, not of men,".....
Then, sitting across the table from his son, a Marine, while on vacation in Colorado, his son said to him, "Dad, you took the same oath I took" -- it was "an oath to support and defend the Constitution,"
"We are a nation of laws, not of men," John Adams once said. Adams was referring to the Rule of Law principle. Some argue that the Rule of Law principle retards progress by throwing legal wrenches into the machinery of needed social change. Indeed, Karl Marx saw the Rule of Law as a tool used by oppressors to confound social revolution.
The Founders had quite a different view. For them, a republic is more than representative democracy. It is a nation ruled by law. It is as important, perhaps more important that the proper constitutional processes and jurisdictions be followed than the policies or programs passed are good, wise, just, etc.
When the rule of law is followed, even if it sometimes prevents policies that we may think are good and helpful, the long-term effect is to prevent lawlessness and tyranny.