Given the demands of defending a large area, though, the central government was bound to grow. Madison, who fought against the creation of the First Bank of the United States on constitutional and policy grounds, accepted the creation of the Second Bank. Jefferson who condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts, took recourse to similar policies in the Embargo Enforcement Act.
The potential for exercising greater power was there from the beginning and would be used by whoever was in power. Perhaps the unconscious of the founders or the natural tendencies of government should also be plumbed.