Small government does not equate to no government.
The USA is not now, nor has it ever been, an anarchistic or libertarian nation.
If you want to live your life that way, you have choices.
Apply for a visa to live in the nation that most closely matches your personal pursuit of happiness.
But what we have today is astoundingly and stupidly large.
I won't live long enough to read all the new laws that are passed, much less the old ones I don't know about.
God gave us 10. I can quote most of them.
Compare and contrast.
/johnny