NH secessionists, federalists rally for states' rights

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It is the right of a sovereign state to nullify a law which exceeds the federal governments jurisdiction granted through the constitutional compact.

Those who refute the idea of the Constitution being a compact between sovereign states usually invoke the wording of the Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People.” They do this to show that the American citizens are of one body, rather than citizens of independent sovereign states. But before any of you nod your head in agreement with them, I’d like for us to consult some other experts on that subject.

• James Madison in the 1798 Virginia Resolve, wrote that “the Federal Government as resulting from the compact, to which the States are parties.”

• Madison in a letter to Edward Everett, in 1830 said that the Constitution was “a compact among the States in their highest sovereign capacity.” Elsewhere in this same letter he refers to the states as “the parties to the Constitutional compact.”

• Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania, though a notable advocate for strong national government said at the assembly of 1787 that he “came here to form a compact for the good of America. He was ready to do so with all the States. He hoped and believed that all would enter into such a compact. . . . But as the compact was to be voluntary, it is in vain for the Eastern States to insist on what the Southern States will never agree to.”

• The first chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay, who believed in the expansion of federal power, in the case of Chisholm v. State of Georgia, “expressly declares that the Constitution of the United States is a compact.”

• The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, stated “Our Constitution of the United States and all our State Constitutions, have been voluntary compacts.”

• Thomas Jefferson once explained that “[t]he states entered into a compact which is called the Constitution of the United States.”

• In the Federalist No. 85, Hamilton referred to the Constitution as “[t]he compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and Union.” He also explained that, if it were to be altered in any way, those changes “must undergo a new decision of each State.”

• The representative of Massachusetts, Elbert Gerry, said, “If nine out of thirteen[states] can dissolve the compact six out of nine will be just as able to dissolve the new one hereafter.”

• Edmund Pendleton, who was president of the 1778 Virginia ratifying convention, in calling for support of the new Constitution, stated, “This is the only Government founded in real compact.”

So what about “We the People”? Well, let’s take that question to the man who was head of the committee on attending to the diction, or wording of the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania.
Morris, in his book The Life and Writings of, wrote that the meaning behind the phrase “We the people” which he authored, and the actual Constitution itself was a compact not between individuals, but between political societies, the people, not to America, but of the United States, each enjoying sovereign power and of course equal rights.
Also worth pointing out is that throughout the whole of The Madison Papers --over 900 pages covering 1787 Constitutional Convention proceedings and the debates which took place within-- there is not one discussion to be found regarding citizens being one people outside their individual states.

What is the significance of the word compact? A compact is a voluntary agreement between sovereign entities-- thus once coercion enters the picture the agreement can no longer be considered a compact. Also worth noting is that just as sovereign entities can freely make compacts, they are also free to leave them if they feel they no longer benefit from said compact-- after all, they are sovereign.

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