“No state legislature sent competing electors to the Congress so the Congress approved the vote.”
Which makes them accessories and collaborators and an illegitimate governing body.
I totally agree with you iffinnegan. I honestly think that the Republic died with the 14th Amendment. The Republic was long dead before we were a glimmer in our great-great-grandfathers eyes. The illegal ratification (whole other thread needed for that) of that amendment took us from a Republic to one large federal state with provinces.