The founders were good to know that government power should be restricted, but they failed in that they had giving the people the ability to hand power over to the government, ultimately they had just put in an extra step to the descent into tyranny, it was a matter of time before the people would become willing to elect in tyrants and give their support to changes being made to the system's design that paved their road to serfdom, from the beginning, it could be predicted that we'd have laws that flagrantly violated the constitution and bill of rights (under the shady nonsense justification ftom "progressives" that these were "living documents" that "needed to change with the times"), and the people would not only refuse to oppose these alterations, but they'd loudly support them, even going so far as to march in the streets to demand them. Given enough power, the people will demand their own servitude, and turn any nation into a state of slaves and masters, the elites who take the masters role will be waiting, ready and willing to take up their eager slaves on the offer.