[WhiskeyPapa]

For example, New York merely said the powers could be reassumed "whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness". That condition was accepted by the framers.

But not Madison.

And none of these state ratifying conventions even suggests that U.S. law applies.

Funny that the New Yorkers mention happiness, for it is the pursuit of happiness that Jefferson refers to in the D of I.

And the D of I was absolutely an appeal to natural rights. And none of these states says that anything but natural or God given rights are involved in reassuming their power. Even the newspaper article you wrongly put forward alludes to natural rights.

Walt

[thatdewd]

And none of these state ratifying conventions even suggests that U.S. law applies...

So now you apparently believe they were never in the union to begin with, since those documents (and the stated conditions within) are what made them part of it.

You really are trying make the entire union void as a fraudulent agreement. No longer satisfied with merely calling the Constitution a "pact with the devil", it seems.