[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Secession was decided in 1861-1865, Then the SCOTUS decision of Texas vs White in 1869.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-v-White

[central_va]

Secession was decided in 1861-1865

Nope.

[Verginius Rufus]

Might makes right, as the Athenians showed the Melians in 415 B.C. and as Saddam Hussein showed the Kuwaitis in 1990.

The Civil War demonstrated that the Tenth Amendment was a dead letter. The last five years have shown that most of the protections of the other amendments are dead letters as well.