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I am aware that this is what it was labeled, though it was not actually armed insurrection. "Insurrection" requires authority over someone, and that authority had been rescinded by a democratic vote of the people of the States, which is the same authority that legitimized the Constitution in the first place.

Also, "Insurrection" refers to a minority of the population within a nation state, it does not apply to the majority within a nation state.

Our system was a collection of nation states, each of which had authority independent of the others before they formed the confederacy under the articles of confederation.

Both New York and Virginia, in their ratification documents, reserved the right to re-assume their sovereign powers, and this ratification statement was accepted without comment by the government at the time.