And which article of the USC is this covered?
The Supremacy Clause.
For me, it's so much easier simply to accept that the Constitution created a national government that is too powerful, that neutered the states and turned them into administrative districts, that create powers vague and dangerous, and that has a general tendency to expand in scope and expense.
My explanation is supported by the facts. It was predicted when the Constitution was still up for debate. The scientific method of hypothesis-experiment-results has affirmed the anti-federalist argument. Why hold onto the false arguments of Calhoun?
I can maybe understand them trying those arguments back then, the same way Jefferson tried to create new doctrines and somehow improve politically what was fundamentally a bad situation.
That's what makes the CSA so idiotic. To lead their people into violent rebellion, only to set up the SAME system with all the same faults. It's absurd. The Confederacy was NOT a confederacy. There's nothing more absurd than that FACT. It was a republic. Ridiculous. So much blood...for NOTHING.
I don't get it. Why try to get out from the Constitution and defend it at the same time? Why not just claim your right to revolution, and create something better?