[WayneS]

Lincoln thinks that the nation created the states, which, of course, Robert E. Lee … could never buy into. Robert E. Lee would say that the states created the Union; but the Midwest [perspective] would say … before Illinois was a state, it was a territory; the Union created these new states out of nothing. That’s a very Midwestern perspective on the Constitution.

This alleged "midwest perspective" on the Constitution completely ignores the Articles of Confederation, the document which the Constitution replaced. The 13 original colonies ALL considered themselves sovereign states prior to the Articles of Confederation. In fact, if they were NOT individual sovereign states, they would not have needed to form a confederation of states - they could simply have formed a nation from "whole cloth".

The argument that the nation created the States is not historically correct; it is not legally correct and it is not logically correct.

This leftist muslim and his sycophants at "Salon.com" know less about the U.S. Constitution than my cats know.

[WayneS]

I hereby retract my comment regarding Professor Amar being "muslim", and request that the last sentence of my post be amended to read:

"This leftist moron and his "Salon.com" sycophants know less about the U.S. Constitution than my cats know."

Thank you.