Sorry about that, unfortunately, FR does not have a CC: feature.
PJT: "Where we may have differed is that I took Madison's words to be absolute, and you offered the additional context of "necessity," meaning only after a "long train of abuses and usurpations.""
I'm not sure what your word "absolute" refers to.
Clearly, Madison gives us two conditions where, we would say, a "right of secession" applies -- "necessity" and "mutual consent", with "necessity" referring to "violations", "abuse", "usurpations" and "intolerable oppression", such as our Founders experienced in the years up to 1776.
PJT: "My facetious (to me) scorecard didn't mean to deny Madison's opinions, but to respond to the point that historically we accept "one man's opinion" when we agree with it and discard it when we don't."
That's why I make the point, there were no Founders who directly contradicted Madison on this -- so, it's not just "one man's opinion".
Any quote you might cite, for example from Thomas Jefferson, can easily fit into one or the other of Madison's two categories.
No Founder ever proposed or supported a unilateral, unapproved declaration of secession at pleasure.
PJT: "I believe Madison's opinion should be given the same weight that history has given Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state" opinion, and also Paine's contemporaneous "natural born citizen" writings."
Then you are ignoring all of our Founders' opinions, since Madison was not only the Father of the Constitution, relied on by Washington and others to express their views, and he is also expressing directly what the others implied in their own words and actions.
What I don't understand is how Madison's words can be in the least controversial or misunderstood.