This is where the problem began;the committee on style changed it from the above to just we the people. This inferred that the people, not the States, formed the US. Since the States were acceded into the Union, then the reverse would be allowed too. The people inferred that we were a Federalist nation, not a Nation of States. The correct interpretation is that we were a country of States and this is explained in the Federalist Papers.
As with all Liberalism, meanings get skewed into something else which was never intended.