I always thought that an odd phrase, "believe that the Constitution is some kind of suicide pact". By it I presume that you mean those of us who understand the union, under both the Articles of confederation and the United States Constitution to be perpetual, but I see nothing suicidal in it whatsoever.
Now take a poster like central-va - by his rhetoric he does believe it to be a suicide pact and can't wait for it to fail (as do many Lost Causers).
Your presumption is in error, particularly since you have the hubris to imply those who don't agree with your assumption somehow lack 'understanding'.
"The federal government, then, appears to be the organ through which the united republics communicate with foreign nations, and with each other. Their submission to its operation is voluntary: its councils, its sovereignty is an emanation from theirs, not a flame by which they have been consumed, nor a vortex in which they are swallowed up. Each is still a perfect state, still sovereign, still independent, and still capable, should the occasion require, to resume the exercise of its functions, as such, in the most unlimited extent.
St. George Tucker View of the Constitution of the United States – 1803 [paragraph 337]