Zyroh
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They are sovereign.
This is re-re-quoted from a post made by a user here last year or so.
You libs can hide behind rulings like Texas v. White if you wish, but the fact remains the country is founded on a union of nations that allows those nations to break from that union if they so wish. There is a logical reason that can't be denied that the states are called states and the union is called a union. Try to pretend if you wish that union was indeed a take over by the all powerful government if you wish than do you damnest to try to support it by statements of the time.
Anyway, I support this action. More states need to threaten to leave.
interesting quotes you have there, you should add to it the Federalist Paper number 17, it discusses the fears the federalists had of states gaining power over the federal government because since the state government is closer to each individual they'd be more likely to side with their state against the federal government.
unfortunately after all of these quotes and writings there was a giant war that killed 600,000 people the results of which made it completely infeasible for any state to actually ever be sovereign again. then the 17th amendment which took the state governments' power of choosing senators away. states have only have the powers that the current federal government allows them to have, in every instance the supreme court will back the federal government (them being agents of the federal government afterall what would you expect?).
don't worry, the federalist system is very key to what made the US such a brilliant idea. the farther we move away from it, the more apparent the reasoning behind it comes, and the closer to the next awakening we get. it's like a ratchet, we can only move in one direction (away from federalism) until it breaks and we gotta put it back together from scratch.