By reason of the 10th Amendment, the powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people thereof. The federal government gets around this by offering money to the states with strings attached covering the things not mentioned in the Constitution. And, where does the federal government get this money? By taxation. So, ignoring differences in the distribution of income by state, the federals cripple the states, through high taxation, and then offers the states crutches in the form of aid to education, Medicaid, etc. Chief Justice John Marshall once said the power to tax is the power to destroy. Somebody has to think this one through so that the federal government can’t destroy the states.
The increase in power of the federal government is because of the states violating constitutional rights and their desire to get cover from the voters. “We didn’t do it, it was the feds.”
This power is what the people as a whole wanted.
The Constitution is like handcuffs to patriots, license to Dems. We misjudged the evil that people would accept as normal, as long as they get their cut.