The problem here is that you are adhering to a textualist reading of the constitution. You are not along but you are in a small minofity on that.
Most of thosewho study the constitution recognize the concept of unenumerated rights:
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Get that ?"persona;lmatters" It does not get any more personal that the issue of what one does with thir own body
And, I understand very well what a Constitutional Republic is:
Constitutional Republic defined and explained with examples. Constitutional Republic is a form of government in which representatives are elected by the people.
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follow the rules of that country’s constitution in governing their people." The states have been notorious in passing all sorts of laws that violate the US Constitution. You say return the issue to the people but in most cases, it is not really the people who will decide it. Its the politicians. But in any case, when it comes to matters of civil rights, neither the people or the politiciansshould be deciding it.
The sad truth is that with an ineffectual congress and a president who has a very tenuous majority in Wasjhingron, it is the SCOTUS that is running the country and in doing so, they have pretty much chosen to disregard the Constitution and instead, rule like the Mullahsm of Afganastan