Surely, you jest.
”It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country [speaking of America], by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”
. . . FEDERALIST No. 1 General Introduction (Hamilton)
Clearly, the explicit expectation here is that government is to be established by the people, and not to be imposed upon them by some outside force (a King, an Emperor, a “Protector,” etc). The onus therefore falls upon government to perform only the duties which its charter permits. The Constitution was written to control the activity of government, and it permits government only those powers expressly enumerated. To do otherwise would have necessitated a document thousands of pages in length.