You are gone. It was supposed to be the other way around, the FedGov™ was to be subservient to the states EXCEPT for a few things codified in the USC. This is why I think things are hopeless, I come to a site called FREE REPUBLIC, for God's sake, and I get lectured by a foolish Federal apologist(I'm being nice).
I’m not aplogizing for anything dupe, I can vote for whom I choose. You live in Virgina, one of fifty states in the nation. You can think it separate all you want. Your Confederate utopia is a dream and nothing more.
Rather odd that south Carolina wanted to end states’ right to forbid slavery within their own boundary, and wanted to coopt the federal government to enforce their domestic institutions within the boundary of another state. Yes, you said it right, the Slavers wanted the federal government to be their servant, to coerce the other states. When it looked like that would not happen, they fired on US soldiers performing their duty.
“Foolish’’? How ironic. I come to the same site and I lectured by a Confederate in the attic.