[EternalVigilance]

If Massachusetts decided to make all children the property of the state, wouldn't your "logic" dictate that this would be perfectly fine?

If West Virginia decided all kayakers could be killed at will, that would be just dandy, and "constitutional," right?

If Illinois decided to ban all guns, that's not a problem from your standpoint, right?

If North Dakota decided to outlaw trial by jury, no problem, right?

Your position is ridiculous. It is the destruction of every premise of American republican self-government.

The purpose of government, all government, according to the framers of our government, is to protect unalienable rights.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

[EternalVigilance]

If anyone wonders why liberty is disappearing in America, it is because of the total abandonment by our political and legal class of the exact principles under discussion here.

Because, these are the foundational premises upon which our liberty was established. Without these uniquely American foundations, you've got a house that rests on shifting sand, awaiting the next storm which WILL complete the destruction of the entire edifice.