Chief Justice Marshall disagrees with that opinion.
Can you point to any constitutional action ever taken by the people en massee? Who did they vote for? Who ratified for another state? Can the "people" decide who are the electors for Florida? Can the "people" declare that queers can be legally married in Idaho, or vote on their representatives?
The definition of a CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC seems simply to be "an assemblage of societies,'' or an association of two or more states into one state. The extent, modifications, and objects of the federal authority are mere matters of discretion. So long as the separate organization of the members be not abolished; so long as it exists, by a constitutional necessity, for local purposes; though it should be in perfect subordination to the general authority of the union, it would still be, in fact and in theory, an association of states, or a confederacy. The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.If the people were one mass, the states would have been abolished. They weren't.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 9, "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection"
P.S. Can you name/describe the great war/revolution that occurred to overthrow the Articles - if one occurred. I've seen numerous posters allege that the right of revolution means that the state could raise up military force to alter it's form of government.