But I would emphasize two essential points -- "Constitutional government" basically means "the federal government should not do much" and "the states should make their own decisions".
People who have read the Constitution understand this. The military? Yeah, that's a federal matter. Social welfare? Not a federal matter.
The problem I have is that the feds take massive sums of money from the states then use it as a cattle prod to force the states to federal will.
The bulk of tax dollars should never leave the states but be kept at home where the people of the individual states can decide how to spend it.