There is a principle in law where precedent acts are given full faith and credit until and unless they are explicitly reprealed. The Constitutional Convention was convened to improve the Articles of Confederation. Today’s commentators often observe how the delegates to the Constitutional Convention exceeded their authority by authoring a replacement for the Articles of Confederation rather than simply amending the Article of Confederation. These same commentators are mistaken and wrong in those statements. The delegates pushed their authority to the limits, but they never did replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. Instead, they technically complied with their grant of authority by extending the original “Enagements” such as the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation by writing the Constitution “to form a more perfect Union” that incorporated the prior Engagements and laws while superceding others with the revised provisions in the Constitution. This is further evidenced by the Constitution not reiterating or being redundant in such matters as to how the “Stile” of the United States of America would ermain the same or the States would remain Sates in the Perpetual Union even though they had not yet ratified the Constitution. The authros of the Constitution remained within their grants of authority by improving the Articles of Confederation with the extending Constitution and not by scrapping and replacing the Articles of Confederation altogether.
“There is a principle in law where precedent acts are given full faith and credit until and unless they are explicitly reprealed.”
There’s also a principle in law that if any legislation conflicts with the natural law and rights of man, it is invalid on its face. Hence, any proposal that would limit the right of self-determination, whether it be in the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, or an act of Congress, would be worthless. You simply cannot constrain people perpetually to one form of government; it’s not feasible or enforceable, and it could never be lawful, no matter what authority you appeal to.