Tjhe purpose of the Constitution was for the 13 sovereign states to form a more perfect union. It was not the intent of the founders to create a powerful nation.
In the Gettysburg Address President Abraham Lincoln announced to the world that the union of sovereign states of America had been disolved and a new nation had been born.
Im 1871 Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871 that changed that new nation into a corporation. The Constitution for the united States of America with the origina 13th Amendment were discarded and replaced with the corporate CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.