No inference necessary. Read the quote in Reply 6 and it is clear that is exactly what Lee is trying to do, in all his full-blown, post-rebellion revisionist glory.
Care to source Madison's quote you posted earlier in the thead?
Sure. An 1832 letter in response to Alexander Rives.
Not hardly. Lee states that it is the attempt to change the Constitution from it's original intent that is the root of the issue.
The attempt at historical revisionism in the face of facts won't work.
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Sure. An 1832 letter in response to Alexander Rives.
LOL! A New York Times newspaper article from 1860 concerning an undated letter that was supposedly written by Madison to someone under a under a nom de plume? Good grief, they can't even get the phrase nom de plume right.
THAT'S your 'source'?
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Were the people regarded in this transaction as forming one nation, the will of the majority of the whole people of the United States, would bind the minority; in the same manner as the majority in each State must bind the minority; and the will of the majority must be determined either by a comparison of the individual votes; or by considering the will of a majority of the States, as evidence of the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation then the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal and not a national Constitution.
Federalist, no. 39 James Madison, 16 Jan. 1788