[Poohbah]

And the Constitution never once referenced said Articles nor mentioned perpetual. So it must have been a different form of government established, a voluntary one. Hmmmm....

We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union...

"More perfect" than what, pray tell?

[billbears]

More perfect is not perpetual. More perfect insinuates that the holding bonds of perpetualness are broken and that the states would want to remain together voluntarily. However it does not insinuate that if the union between the states ever came to a point that they could no longer be together, that force would be used in making them remain