Since your only contribution to the discussion has been to tell me how wrong I am.....
consider us even.
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Were the people regarded in this transaction as forming one nation, the will of the majority of the whole people of the United States, would bind the minority; in the same manner as the majority in each State must bind the minority; and the will of the majority must be determined either by a comparison of the individual votes; or by considering the will of a majority of the States, as evidence of the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation then the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal and not a national Constitution.
Federalist, no. 39,James Madison, 16 Jan. 1788
“Since your only contribution to the discussion has been to tell me how wrong I am.....”
I infer that you don’t think it’s a contribution to try to point out weaknesses in your position, thus giving you an opportunity to strengthen it.
“Each State...is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act.”
Arguably, by their voluntary (more or less) acts they bound themselves in Union, not by ratifying the Constitution of course. Arguably, by their voluntary acts they prohibited themselves from violating that to which they bound themselves.