The US Constitution is designed to centralize power in the federal government taking it away from the states.

The first charter for the US federal government was the Articles of Confederation and it created a much more severely limited government.

The first ten amendments, aka the bill of rights, were a compromise from the big government pro constitution group to get more of the small government people to switch sides.

They should have stuck to their principles and kept the articles of confederation.

All of this has somehow gone missing from most American history books. I'll let the reader decide if that was intentional.