Wrong on all counts.
Our government was NOT created "to protect individual rights" - although that was ONE of the underlying principles of its organization. It was created to to ensure our mutual security.
"Free trade has made unwilling individuals sacrifice their livlihoods" is a socialist utterance If I ever heard one. Nobody at any time in the history of our nation has ever asserted that any individual had a "right" to any given livlihood. Such an assertion is absurd for two reasons.
First it is beyond the power of the government to ensure, except by robbing other unwilling citizens to pay for work they otherwise would not buy. Second, it is incompatible with the purposes of ensuring the GENERAL welfare, which requires that government consider foremost the aggregate effects of its policies.
So, far from being "utterly incongruent with the responsibilities of the federal government and violates the spirit of the US Constitution", free trade, such as it exists (and it most assuredly does not) is entirey consistent with, and in furtherance of, the express purposes and intentions of our Constitution.