My copy of the Constitution states as its crowning purpose the securing of the blessings of liberty to posterity. It also says that NO PERSON shall be deprived of life without a fair trial. Twice. It also enjoins that specifically on the States, along with the imperative demand that the States provide for the equal protection of the laws to ALL PERSONS in their jurisdiction. I have no idea what you copy says. Maybe those critical portions have been excised out.
It also contains a guarantee of a Republican form of government to all the States. Exactly what do you think a Republican form of government is, in the American context? Is it just a form, or must it include the spirit and the soul of our nation’s foundational laws? Can any truly American Republican State allow the destruction of what the Founders called God-given and therefore unalienable and still be in fact considered American?
By the way, you didn’t answer the question. Again. Do you think any particular State can outlaw the keeping and bearing of arms, for example?
Look here, Johnny One Note, you can keep on blathering all you like, but you are not going to get anywhere. You are merely alienating a whole lot of people who might otherwise be your allies. I personally loathe abortion and consider it murder most foul. I would dearly love to see Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life act passed, which would go as far as the Fed are ALLOWED to go under our Constitution. It would set the official beginning of life as being at conception, then remove jurisdiction from the Courts to hear challenges to that definition. With life being thus defined, I believe that it would not be difficult to have the States, since murder is properly a violation of STATE law, pass their own laws punishing the murder of the unborn. I fail to see where YOUR problem lies, except that it must obviously be somewhere between your ears.
The ONLY criminal acts that the Federal Government has jurisdiction over are Piracy, Treason and Counterfeiting. ALL THE REST comes under the jurisdiction of the Several States. All of it. Excepting only crimes committed on and by the military and its personnel. These are covered by the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
If you STILL have a problem comprehending this, my best advice is that you take it up with the Founders, whose wisdom and best judgment went into writing this document.
Keep in mind that the Preamble to the Constitution is a list of lofty goals. The specific grants of authority (and the limits thereon) come mainly in Article One. And that is ALL the authority granted to FedGov. Now just get over it. And get to work on your STATE legislature to do something to stop the carnage. It’s THEIR job after all.