The Constitution was NOT established to limit the federal government. It was established to limit STATE governments and increase the power of the federal government. Read your history this story is clearly told by numerous histories. It was PRECISELY because state power was weakened in favor of the central government that the Anti-federalist opposition grew up opposing the ratification.
With all due respect arragantsob, you've got the wires completely crossed as to why the Founding States made the federal Constitution. In fact, Judge Andrew Napolitano will take about 3 minutes to read the federal government's relatively short list of constitutional Article I, Section 8 powers to you.
Judge Napolitano & the Constitution
And the Supreme Court has officially clarified, in terms of the 10th Amendment, that any power that is not in the relatively short list of powers that Judge Napolitano just read to you is prohibited to the federal government.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.