To be sure, we need to be ever mindful that government can do bad, horrible things. But, we must not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Hence, the fundamental wisdom of the Constitution, checks and balances.
Unfortunately, most, if not all of the abuses of power are enabled by interpreting the Constitution as saying things that it plainly does not. There is no fundamental wisdom if we can interpret it to mean whatever we think it ought to mean.