As succinctly put as I have read:
“America from its founding to the early part of the 20th century more or less enjoyed the James Madison [Father of the Constitution] model for the federal government.
“Under this model, the federal government could only legislate, regulate, spend and govern in the 16 discrete areas of human behavior that the Constitution delegated to it. All other areas of human behavior were left free to individual choices or governance by the states.
“From and after Wilson’s presidency, the Madisonian model was replaced by the Wilsonian one. Under this model, the feds could legislate, regulate, spend and govern in any areas of human behavior for which there was a national political will, except for those areas that are expressly prohibited to them by the Constitution.”
—Andrew P Napalitano, January 12, 2023
You decide.
“A Government by Experts,” LewRockwell, https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/01/andrew-p-napolitano/a-government-by-experts/
(Not to get into the weeds, I view the result of the Civil War as Providential. The important part is the above.)
