“What’s your point? Congress is not granted that power, and thus laws concerning murder (including human sacrifice) of nearly everyone except federal agents, and individuals murdered “on the high seas” or in the District of Columbia, are the purview of state governments. This is why 18 USC 1111(b) specifies the scope of the penalty for murder as “Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”
Good grief.
If congress is not granted that power, then federal laws against murder are invalid. By your logic, murder is legal on any military base, except insofar as it might fall under state jurisdiction.
No, federal laws against murder are not invalid, because they only apply to federal personnel and federal property under Article I Section 8.
A military base is under federal jurisdiction/authority: "Congress shall have the power ... to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings."
That's my logic, what's yours?