Well, the government still exists, but through the efforts of the Judicial and Executive Branch's, there are just about no limits left.
The original idea was that the people were the country, but they needed a central government to raise an army to defend the group of states, to mint money so the States could all buy and sell goods and services to each other, and to control the commerce between the States.
Today the executive branch (Office of the President) and the lawmakers (the House and the Senate) seem totally and completely out of the people's control. The federal government has grown exponentially and unconstitutionally, which actually HELPED the federal government get bigger.
One of the causes or results of the size of the government is that too many American citizens expect the government to do everything and to fix everything and that leads to the government gaining more and more control of everything. If the average citizen doesn't want to take personal responsibility for what they find wrong within the country and continues to expect the government to do it for them, then the government will continue to grow and the difference between the US and a communist state will be hard to see.
The government that the founding fathers created will exist only if the people want it enough to do what is necessary to make it so.
The constitution
The Founding Fathers wanted to make it difficult for one person, party, or group to get control of the government.
How did England help create our goverment
Philadelphia
The founding fathers create the congressional decision making process to be... slow and deliberative.
They didn’t create a weak national government, but one with a balanced set of powers.
They didn’t create a weak national government, but one with a balanced set of powers.
a strong government.
They didn't create Freemasonry. However, many of the founding fathers were Freemasons. Freemasons date well before the United States.
The English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta. These were the only two because England had limited the power of its kings and queens in two documents.
The framers of the US Constitution met in Philadelphia in 1787 to 1789 to create a new government to replace the Articles of Confederation government.
Philadelphia, PA