It's the very reason the Founders limited Govt as such, to protect we the people's rights, especially property rights, without which there is no real freedom, like now.
No, you haven't read the rewrite of history. They wanted to especially protect sexual rights. The more perverse the better.
This is another myth that is widespread. The Constitution greatly EXPANDED federal power; it only limited the power of states. That expansion rightly came about because the prior government was powerless and contemptible incapable of resisting the negative actions of the states. It had ceased to exist for all practical purposes.