Article XXX. In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.Massachussetts Constitution
Adopted 7 years prior to the drafting of the Constitution of the US.
We are a government of laws, not of men, metamorphasis, political evolution, metaphysical concepts, secret essences of legal potency, or normative auras.
We are not bound by any organic process, unless codified into the Constitution of the United States. Your posts are becoming reminiscent of midieval disputes about the nature of the Trinity.
Not at all the hairsplitting and arguments over legal form of the Union is all on your side. It was a Union which existed even though all the states did not ratify the Articles until 1781 when the War was almost over. The "Peace" which followed was not ratified for another two years but was no less real than the Union which had won it in spite of incomplete paperwork.