Government has over-stepped. It does many things that it ought not to do.
But even within the realm of what government “ought to do” look at the military — do you have any idea how often the US has invaded a foreign country? Central America? Middle East? Asia? Yes, we probably need a military — but our government uses it inappropriately and has for over 100 years.
And the legal system? The police? My God. We live in a police state and the courts are a joke.
We need to start over and our next version of the Constitution needs to be more explicit about what the government cannot do, and the instant penalties that will be levied against government bureaucrats who break the rules.
I outlined what are legitimate functions of the gov’t. I did not judge how well they are doing w/r to those functions. You don’t need to overhaul the Constitution. A Republic can only survive with an informed voting public, which we do not have. People know leaders are corrupt and doing a horrible job of running the gov’t, but they continue to put the same people back in office. An ill-informed voting body gets what they voted for, and the US is ill-informed on what its representatives are doing.
How much more clear do you want?
If the constitution doesn’t say anything about such-and-such; it is left to the states.