The 10th amendment in limiting the power of the federal government gives sovereignty to TWO entities. One is the states, and the other is THE PEOPLE. Thats all the people of the whole nation as a single unit.NO action requires unanimity of the states, the powers are to the states severally and independently. The same applies to the people - the people of the several states, not the entire people. Their is no action that the people of any state can perform for another state. The motion to submit the ratification of the Constitution to the amalgamated people did not even receive a second. Historical fact refutes the absuridty of that position.
NO action requires unanimity of the states, the powers are to the states severally and independently. The same applies to the people - the people of the several states, not the entire people. Their is no action that the people of any state can perform for another state. The motion to submit the ratification of the Constitution to the amalgamated people did not even receive a second. Historical fact refutes the absuridty of that position.
From the article I posted: "The national sovereignty would therefore be totally separate from the sovereignty of the states. As Madison explained, the Articles of Confederation were “derived from the dependent derivative authority of the legislatures of the states; whereas this [Constitution] is derived from the superior power of the people.”13 The Constitution did not consolidate the states entirely, but “[s]hould all the States adopt it, it will be then a government established by the thirteen States of America, not through the intervention of the Legislatures, but by the people at large.”14 This is why the Constitution was ratified by special ratification conventions rather than state governments: to make clear that the states were not parties to the Constitutional compact. Thus, contrary to the strong-union view, the sovereignty of the states did not depend on the creation of the federal authority; they were two independent systems, in which the federal power was supreme within its limited sphere—and nonexistent outside of that sphere."
What do you say to that?