Then the entire Constitution is nothing but an exercise in semantics.
The notion that a state is an entity that has rights is a false notion with destructive consequences.
So the 10A doesn't exist?
Of course it does, but it says nothing about states having "rights."
Your posted link is full of rhetoric, but it boils down to: The federal government isn't doing enough to force free states to hunt down escaped slaves.
It specifically criticizes other state legislatures for not passing laws that South Carolina thinks are necessary.
The document essentially claims that South Carolina is leaving because the federal government refuses to interfere in the affairs of other states to impose South Carolina's interpretation of the Constitution on New York, New Jersey, Ohio etc.
So not only is the whole concept of "states' rights" an oxymoron as a constitutional concept, the South Carolina state legislature is engaging in ridiculously laughable hypocrisy by giving the federal government the following ultimatum: "Either use federal power to force Ohio and New Jersey to obey South Carolina, or we will secede."
"States' rights" indeed! What a joke.
'States rights' is a commonly used term (I've heard Ann Coulter use this term and she was editor of her law review) that is derived from the original states being sovereign.
Of course it does, but it says nothing about states having "rights."
Nor does it say anything about 'the people' having 'rights':
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Your posted link is full of rhetoric, but it boils down to: The federal government isn't doing enough to force free states to hunt down escaped slaves.
You read exactly what you wanted to and ignored the rest. Typical public school revisionist history yankee.
"Either use federal power to force Ohio and New Jersey to obey South Carolina, or we will secede."
Once again, you've either proven that you don't have reading comprehension or, you're a typical propagandizing yankee.
First of all, that document WAS the secession instrument. It wasn't a threat to secede.
Second, it documented the states that committed unconstitutional acts, such as Ohio and New Jersey and stated that if some states could violate the constitution to the economic detriment of other states without a legal remedy, then the constitution was no longer valid and the 'union' was a farce.
"States' rights" indeed! What a joke.
Have some more Kool-Aid, idiot.