I think you're right. It is amazing how far-sighted our visionary Founders were. They knew they were building something that would affect posterity and the world for centuries to come.
So let's bring things up to the present. What is posterity doing with this?
Not one state has rejected and nullified any of the myriad of unconstitutional acts of the feds - by definition, acts of tyranny.
Why?
Because the governors and elected politicians of each state are addicted to federal financial aid and worried sick about losing it. We've gone full circle. America is about INDEPENDENCE, but the states have become addicted to financial dependence on the feds and don't want to risk being cut off by doing the right thing.
If we are to recover our Free Constitutional Republic, constitutional state sovereignty and independence must once again be asserted by the states and the people.
You are quite right about that and with that in mind we have a very hard row to hoe.