EagleAye
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A Constitution would be meaningless without a government to enforce and uphold it.
And large governments have a strong tendency to seize more and more power, in spite of any Constitutional protections written to deter this. Just look at what has happened with the federal government in the United States. In spite of very strict Constitutional provisions to severely limit its scope and power, it has grown very, very far outside the limits that were intended to be imposed upon it.
Do you really believe that we could have any better success keeping a worldwide government under control, than we have had with our own national government?
A continually growing and more powerful government is usually the fault of the governed. The governed commonly demand "why doesn't the government do something about this," rather than solve the problem for themselves. So when the government adds an Agency to solve the problem, it grows bigger and also stronger. So with a new government, we the people should...stop giving the government more power.