>>I agree with you in sprint but the founder created a republic with a purposely weak central government with a few very defined limited functions. The lions share of power originality lied with the states.<<
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Certainly it was a concern to avoid a tyrannical central government . . . and the States had to be enticed in (although there was talk of militarily overwhelming Rhode Island if it continued to hold out on ratification so that it would not become a beachhead for foreign powers). BUT, the prime motive of the founders, I would argue, was to create a strong country out of the loose confederation of states that existed before. The founding fathers all hoped the new nation would grow and thrive. George Washington wrote somewhere that he foresaw it expanding to the Pacific Ocean.
My point is that smaller government is a valid principle in many situations, but not in all — including the problems we face in 2016 with vanquishing the evil globalism, which seeks to destroy our nation.
I believe we MUST understand that this is a WAR to preserve America — not so much against a particular foreign nation, but against international forces that want to absorb America into a global power structure that is TOTALLY OUTSIDE THE RULE OF OUR CONSTITUTION.
Have you read any of the Federalist papers? A strong centralized federal govt was the last thing the founders wanted.