[lentulusgracchus]

[unspun, furiously spinning a historical question] A: Whaddya do, when the Constitution contradicts itself?
Q: Why, refer to higher authority of course. That is the only thing one can do.

The higher authority in this case being the People.

Which was what happened.

(Remember the pecking order? It didn't go through Theodore Weld and Henry Ward Beecher, btw.)

[justshutupandtakeit]

Appealing to the People was only constitutional when done through the amendment process. Madison told you that the Union was once and for all.

[unspun]

The higher authority in this case being the People.

There is an authority higher than the People, l --just as the Declaration and the Constitution recognize.