Sadly, we failed in that resolution. Because of that failure, we have a moral obligation to restore government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We owe it to those who went before us and to our children.
You are correct. Over the last 50 years or so, have become a "government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, and for the bureaucrats."
It almost does not matter which party is in political power, the bureaucracy, or 'permanent government' gains ever more power. Look at what the IRS, EPA, VA, ATF, and countless other alphabet agencies can do to people without the politicians every even knowing or even caring what's going on. And even when the politicians care and try to find out, the bureaucracy stiff arms them.
Government in not our enemy. Big government is our enemy.