I've come to a realization. The constitution is not the supreme law. That would be "natural law"; The philosophy underpinning our original founding document, the Declaration of Independence.
Our founders did not appeal to the 1787 US Constitution as the authority for what they did, they appealed to the laws of Nature, and of Nature's God.
The Document that CREATED US citizenship, (The Declaration of Independence) was an absolute rejection of British Law, because there was no provision under British law to allow for what they did.
The Declaration of Independence created an independent government, and it was our governing document till the 1781 articles of confederation became the new governing document.
The point is, All authority for all these documents comes from the inherent rights of man as espoused by the philosophy of natural law.