Do you really believe that the very same men who had suffered greatly to free themselves from a dictator would turn right around and create a government that was allowed to determine it's own limits?
I think the founders were intelligent enough to know that the central government as well as the states needed the third branch to act as a check on all of them. Congress and the executive should not have the power to decide on their own if their laws are constitutional or their actions are constitutional. The states as well were free to run their own show within their own borders, much as you may disagree, so long as their acts did not impact their neighbor. So the third branch of government, the judiciary, had the power to rule over their actions as well.
Now your turn.
The ONLY powers the federal government has is those specifically delegated to it by the plain language of the Constitution!
Then where did the power to create NASA and the Air Force come from? The Constitution explicitly allows only for an army and a navy.
The states are, each one individually, free and independent period and can do whatever they wish with the exception of those things expressly prohibited them by the plain language of the Constitution!
Then where does the Constitution expressly prohibits them from expelling another state against its will?
OK! But you don't get to pick the question.
When you answer the questions I posed in #325 then I will answer your question.
BTW: I’m letting you know ahead of time that I won’t be on for most of tomorrow but will be back on Friday.