Governments were created to secure people's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That does not imply that government should be allowed to grow to the point that it attacks those rights more than criminals do.
Freedom without the presnce of autority is anarchy...are you an anarchist?
If I am free to do whatever I want to do, and no one has the authority to stop me from doing it...what secures your freedom from being violated if I am stronger than you?
Good start.
The Constitution created a government, that Constitution granted powers to a national government, and set rules that we were all willing to live under.
It did things like cede lawful authority to settle issues via a national Court system, to create a forum where the individual States would assemble and enact laws for all of us, etc...in other words, in writing the Constitution, the "willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do" was set in place for the United States by the people of the United States.
Right or wrong?