[skepsel]

The Constitution doesn’t grant autonomy to the states.

The Constitution delegates enumerated powers and only those powers to the federal government.

See the 10th Amendment.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What I said was: The Constitution grants great autonomy to the several states. Maybe I should have said, a great deal of autonomy. Virtually all criminal law, not directly impacting Federal interests (espionage, mail fraud) is handled by state governments. Murder, assault, and their prosecution being examples. Some states have the death penalty, some do not. Some, like Connecticut, rarely employ it.

If voters in the several states do not want to get punched in the face, they should know better than to vote Democrat. Good and hard.