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I'll just assume you don't understand the word, "compact" in the text you're repeatedly citing,

I ask a simple question and your reply is an ad hominem attack insinuating a lack of intellect on my part?

I really don't have time for such inane tactics, so have a nice day.

If one defines "compact" as a voluntary agreement, one entered into willingly, as I would assume Madison was using the term, then it doesn't apply to the Republic of West Florida. The area involved was not part of the original Louisiana Purchase, but was proclaimed to be so, unilaterally by Madison in annexing the territory in 1810. Spain technically held possession (and to some degree, liability) for much of the territory 'til they fully and formally ceded it to the United States in 1819.

The citizens there had staged their own little rebellion against the Spanish, and declared their independent republic, having as much right to do so as the U.S. did in the war for independence. William Claiborne, who eventually became the first Governor of the State of Louisiana, showed up to enforce Madison's annexation, to which the Republic relented. It may have been a de jure "compact" but it was "consensual" in the same sense that a child bride in a muslim wedding consents, the consequences of not "consenting" being particularly ugly.