"don't you WISH that were TRUE!" (I always wanted to post that) The Founders and the Framers of the Constitution were well aware of contract law, compacts, treaties, and escape clauses. In the ratification debates, the anti-federalists made some of the same points - and they lost. Ratification of the Constitution strengthened the Union of the states and more firmly bound them as one.
BUT, one again, NOBODY at the time of the Constitution's writing could have predicted what activist judges would DO to their peerless document. they believed that:
the powers NOT ceded to the central government WERE RESERVED TO the states and the people.
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