Actually the Supreme Court and the constitution is working just as the framers wanted it to. Here is Alexander Hamilton explaining how the federal court system will function under the constitution. As I’m sure you know the federalist and anti-federalist papers were widely read during the effort to ratify the constitution.
“The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents. . . .”
Alexander Hamilton Federalist No. 78
Actually it is not. The federal courts were only to rule over those powers delegated to the federal government by the sovereign states. Don't even try to pretend the federal government hasn't massively expanded far beyond any powers the states ever delegated to them.