The constitution enumerates the powers of government technically most of the federal government is unconstitutional at this point but they will never rule that. The powers enumerated to the federal government were interstate commerce and war powers to declare war on foreign entities. Those are the only powers they were ever given. Further more the constitution enumerates some of the inalienable rights in the Bill of Rights and also the constitution. The founders actually fought over weather any should be included in the constitution because they were afraid that since they couldn't list all human rights only the ones specifically named would be taken as the only rights a citizen has. Exactly what has happened and implicit rights not named are now not considered rights even though the founding fathers never intended that.