Please take a little care to understand what I have written before calling me wrong. If you had you would have seen that I did NOT say that the Constitution preceded the states. Check again. Then check the dates of the state constitutions they were all written after the Continental Congress asked for them. Then tell me I am wrong.
The States were created before the Federal Government.
The people created the States first, then the Federal Government.
Granted the state constitutions came afterwards, but those acts did not create the states.