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To: DoodleDawg

Yet New York’s ratification was accepted despite it making an express reservation at the time of ratification stating that it retained its ultimate sovereignty and could resume the powers it delegated to the new federal government. If states could not do so, if they were agreeing to bind themselves forever, why did nobody say the ratifications of New York and Virginia and Rhode Island were defective and could not be accepted?


163 posted on 03/30/2018 9:41:32 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
Yet New York’s ratification was accepted despite it making an express reservation at the time of ratification stating that it retained its ultimate sovereignty and could resume the powers it delegated to the new federal government.

You have that backwards. Nobody "accepted" New York's ratification or any other state's ratification. On they contrary, they were the ones doing the accepting. By ratifying the Constitution they were accepting its supremacy and agreeing to abide by it's constraints.

173 posted on 03/30/2018 10:22:41 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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