[capitan_refugio]

"The Constitution is SUPREME over all other authorities, civil or military, and none has the right to shun so much as one word of its text on the whims of convenience."

The South seemed to shun the Constitution at its convenience.

[lentulusgracchus]

The South seemed to shun the Constitution at its convenience.

The People always have that power and right. The Constitution is theirs to do with.

And the People is the People of a State. There is no lumpen, consolidated "people of the United States". The United States is not, and never has been, a mass national entity. It is a federal union of the States and the People who are the States.