The States did not ratify the Constitution. The legislatures were felt not to have the authority in themselves to delegate authority to a federal government. Special conventions were called in each state, returning to the original sovereignty of the people to authorize a federal Constitution. That compact formed among all the people of the states is why a state cannot secede. (See also Texas v. White http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1868/1868_0 The Court held that individual states could not unilaterally secede from the Union and that the acts of the insurgent Texas legislature—even if ratified by a majority of Texans—were “absolutely null.” )
George Tucker, Blackstone’s Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to The Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States; and the Commonwealth of Virginia, William Young Birch, and Abraham Small; Philadelphia, c 1803. “View of the Constitution of the United States, Section 1”
“The mild tone of requisition was exchanged for the active operations of power, and the features of a federal council for those of a national sovereignty. These concessions it was seen were, in many instances, beyond the power of the state legislatures, (limited by their respective constitutions) to make, without the express assent of the people. A convention was therefore summoned, in every state by the authority of their respective legislatures, to consider of the propriety of adopting the proposed plan; and their assent made it binding in each state; and the assent of nine states rendered it obligatory upon all the states adopting it. Here then are all the features of an original compact, not only between the body politic of each state, but also between the people of those states in their highest sovereign capacity.”
St. George Tucker, Blackstone’s Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to The Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States; and the Commonwealth of Virginia, William Young Birch, and Abraham Small; Philadelphia, c 1803. “View of the Constitution of the United States, Section 2”
“It is a compact by which the several states and the people thereof, respectively, have bound themselves to each other, and to the federal government.
“Having shewn that the constitution had its commencement with the body politic of the several states; and, that its final adoption and ratification was, by the several legislatures referred to, and completed by conventions, especially called and appointed for that purpose, in each state; the acceptance of the constitution, was not only an act of the body politic of each state, but of the people thereof respectively, in their sovereign character and capacity: the body politic was competent to bind itself so far as the constitution of the state permitted, but not having power to bind the people, in cases beyond their constitutional authority, the assent of the people was indispensably necessary to the validity of the compact, by which the rights of the people might be diminished, or submitted to a new jurisdiction, or in any manner affected. From hence, not only the body politic of the several states, but every citizen thereof, may be considered as parties to the compact, and to have bound themselves reciprocally to each other, for the due observance of it and, also, to have bound themselves to the federal government, whose authority has been thereby created, and established.”
They have RENEGED on ANY such agreements. Take that to court.
"This construction has since been fully confirmed by the twelfth (now 10th)article of amendments, which declares, "that the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. This article was added "to prevent misconstruction or abuse" of the powers granted by the constitution, rather than supposed necessary to explain and secure the rights of the states, or of the people. The powers delegated to the federal government being all positive, and enumerated, according to the ordinary rules of construction, whatever is not enumerated is retained; for, expressum facit tacere tacitum is a maxim in all cases of construction: it is likewise a maxim of political law, that sovereign states cannot be deprived of any of their rights by implication; nor in any manner whatever but by their own voluntary consent, or by submission to a conqueror.
More later.
The States created the Federal government and not the other way around period end of story!