It is indeed. However, the Constitution would tell us we have too big a federal government. That pesky little document the country was founded on has an "opinion" that weighs a bit heavier than yours and mine.
And Rectum is arguing our federal government is not to big? Oath Upheld: Nashville Cops Refused Secret Service Request for Illegal Search of Obama Critic By: Barry Donegan Oct 15, 2014 Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson recently sent a letter to Congress alleging that Secret Service agents asked Nashville police to falsify a warrant so that the agents could search the home of a Nashville resident who had posted about President Obama on Facebook....
See, I don't believe the Constitiution speaks for itself, I think we read into it what we ultimately desire. It's always been interpreted, and always will be. We all want a rock to stand on, whether that document, or a scripture, or science, etc., but it always comes back to us. So what we have today is what people in power, whether by merit, wealth, inheritance, or accident, wanted us to have.