The US Constitution delegated and codified a republic. It explained the small and limited functions of the Federal Govt. The BOR codified a few individual rights.
Each state could go fully communist as long as that state did not violate any of the BOR's. Each state could be a Libertarian paradise. The states should be 50 laboratories of self governance. If you didn't like it in one state you used to be able to vote with your feet. But now the republic has been so bastardized that it is now under the thumb of the FEDs which are socialist. The original intent of the USC was to prevent that from happening. As such the USC is an utter failure. I totally understand what the original intent was, so spare me.
Try to open your mind up and learn from those that know history and have an understanding you seem to lack.
The US Constitution delegated and codified a republic. It explained the small and limited functions of the Federal Govt. The BOR codified a few individual rights.
I hate to break this to you (and others), but this legal theory was tested repeatedly in the early 1800s and lost. We then had an internal war over it and the people fighting for this idea lost. For better or worse, we're at the tail end of about 200 years of having a strong federal government. If you want to see how well a weak federal government works, please look at the EU.