[lugsoul]

Catspaw, he doesn't like the corner he is in - but he is well in it.

[Catspaw]

It does seem to indicate that there should be no federal government--or at least it become a pick & choose, opt-in/opt-out deal for the states. If a state, for example, wants to reestablish slavery or deny women the right to vote, it appears, at least according to this theory, the branches of the federal government can have no say because that state opted out of those particular Constitutional amendments.