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If California were to suddenly declare murder to be legal, I don’t see where in the Constitution my sense of moral outrage entitles me to use Congress to make decisions for them.

Then you are thoroughly unfamiliar with the United STates Constitution.

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. If California makes murder legal they have broken the Law of the Land and the feds would have the power to set things right.

Perhaps I misunderstood you because the notion that a state can ignore murder is not one dervived from the United States Constitution.

So Congress should legislate secondhand smoke! After all, it deprives some people of life without due process of law.

Sorry, just showing you the mile that liberals will take with that inch you just gave them. Conservative lust for federal power always gives birth to a liberal bastard.