Which mens that the dlegates to those states were represntatives of “the people”. Now tell me again why “we the people” would ratify a doucment that allows State governments to disarm them, forbid them from practicing their religion or, for that matter, declaring all men above the age of 30 to be murdered by the state for nor reaon or any reason?
Just as state legislators are representatives of the people.
Now tell me again why we the people would ratify a doucment that allows State governments to disarm them
Their existing state constitutions and laws allowed or forbade that prior to the Constitutional Convention delegating limited powers to the newly formed federal government.
If they wanted to amend their state constitutions, they would have amended their state constitutions.