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But here's my point again: Not every item that Virginia or other states proposed in signing statements was accepted into the Constitution. Especially rejected was any language referring to powers "reassumed," or "resumed," by the people, or suggesting the possibility of states' unilateral secession.

That's a fact, not BS.

Actually, your post is complete "BS." Virginia provided, in writing, contingencies to that State's ratification of the Constitution. Those contingencies, or reservations of rights, were part of the legal document. That ratification could have been accepted, as it was, or denied, as it was. It was accepted, including the subject contingencies. Virginia was admitted to the union, on the legal basis of those very same ratification documents, including the subject reservations of rights.

Tell us, Squat-to-Post: if you were selling your house, and a prospective buyer provided a written offer, with the words "subject to sale of current residence" handwritten over the signature line, would you consider that provision to be part of the contract, or not? Based on your previous posts here, you would seem to suggest that such 'reservations of rights' are not part of the contract, no matter what the buyer intended, or specified in writing.

You're nothing but a cheat, and a sneak thief, Squat-to-Post - and you would lose in any honorable court in the land...