Goes back even farther my friend, the “Anti-Federalists” who opposed the new Constitution were right on the money. The alleged “weaknesses” of the Articles of Confederation like congress having no power to levy taxes, enforce “federal” law or declare war were features not weaknesses. The only reason we even have the bill of rights was thanks to the “Anti-Federalists”, without those amendments our government would have had completely unrestrained power the likes of which Great Britain could have only dreamed of. All the checks on power the Federalists designed still depend on people to enforce them which effectively made them utopian and utterly meaningless(see today where all branches now work in concert with each other rather than against each other as intended).

Hell even the idea that those who opposed the new constitution were “anti-federalists” is bullshit. Those who opposed the new constitution did so because it directly contradicted the true Federalism the revolution was fought to realize.

This doesn’t mean the Constitution is “bad” because it isn’t, my point is there was a lot of shady shit going on then just like now where you had those with power attempting to justify further consolidation under the guise of “unity” which is and was never what America was about.