Nobody disagreed on that.
The reason the Bill of Rights was added was because a number of people thought the Constitution didn't restrain the government enough.
The jury is still out on the results, since, as we see, the tendency of a government to accumulate power to itself is almost irresistable.
Whatever their individual opinions, none of the framers (fixed it for you) would have supported a government that has the overwhelming power ours does now, far greater than the British government had over its own citizens at that time.
I dare say that if you got them all in the same room and asked them if the Federal Government should be able to prevent you from draining a ditch on your own farm, they would all give me the same answer.
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The function of the Constitution was to construct a Federal government that could not, hopefully, become a tyranny.
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