Thank goodness that the constitution is the authority and not you.
Actually, JCBreckenridge, to the chagrin of both of us, neither I nor the Constitution is the authority. Nine mostly Ivy League elitists are the authority.
Were I the authority, you and I would both be happily, forcefully, and pretty successfully agitating for abortion bans in our state government(s). That’s assuming I don’t have the authority to implement whatever I want at the federal level, the Constitution be damned. If that’s the case, all sorts of wild stuff would happen. It would be pretty awesome if I had that power. Amendments 16 through 19 are goners, as is #26. The War on Terror would be over, after killing a whole bunch of mostly innocent people as a warning (they only understand force, but they get that), the federal government would shrink to a small fraction of its current size, the fence along the border would make the Berlin Wall look like a joke, and .... anything further might get me kicked off of Free Republic, and on some kind of federal watch list (assuming I’m not already on it).