[GOPcapitalist]

Here are some sentiments that capitan would no doubt agree with. Take a stab at who said them and I'll post the answer shortly:

"[I]t is impossible to speak of original sovereignty in regard to the majority of the states. Many of them were not included in the federal complex until long after it had been established. The states that make up the American Union are mostly in the nature of territories, more or less, formed for technical administrative purposes, their boundaries having in many cases been fixed in the mapping office. Originally these states did not and could not possess sovereign rights of their own. Because it was the Union that created most of the so-called states."

[capitan_refugio]

It's not nice to post quotations from Hitler on Free Republic. Why don't you ask the moderator to remove it?

[4CJ]

The American dictator? LOL. I know who said it, one of Lincoln's great admireres. It really doesn't matter what either these bloviating idiots thought, the US Supreme Court had long since ruled that new states were sovereigns admitted to the union on an eqaul footing, in all regards:

[A] proper examination of this subject will show, that the United States never held any municipal sovereignty, jurisdiction, or right of soil in and to the territory, of which Alabama, or any of the new states were formed.
Justice McKinley, Pollard v Hagan, 44 US. 212, 221 (1845)

[I]t could have no effect to restrict the new state in any of its necessary attributes as an independent sovereign government, nor to inhibit or diminish its perfect equality with the other members of the Confederacy with which it was to be associated.
Justice Daneil, Withers v. Buckley, 61 U.S. 84 (1857)