Exactly!
Almost everyone knows the Founders started with the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, yet later adopted the US Constitution. What people don't seem to give much thought to is how they went about it. It's quite simple. They seceded from it.
From the first legal; treatise written after Constitutional ratification -
Consequently whenever the people of any state, or number of states, discovered the inadequacy of the first form of federal government to promote or preserve their independence, happiness, and union, they only exerted that natural right in rejecting it, and adopting another, which all had unanimously assented to, and of which no force or compact can deprive the people of any state, whenever they see the necessity, and possess the power to do it. And since the seceding states, by establishing a new constitution and form of federal government among themselves, without the consent of the rest, have shown that they consider the right to do so whenever the occasion may, in their opinion require it, as unquestionable, we may infer that that right has not been diminished by any new compact which they may since have entered into, [86] since none could be more solemn or explicit than the first, nor more binding upon the contracting parties. Their obligation, therefore, to preserve the present constitution, is not greater than their former obligations were, to adhere to the articles of confederation; each state possessing the same right of withdrawing itself from the confederacy without the consent of the rest, as any number of them do, or ever did, possess.
Of the Several Forms of Government, George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States, Section XIII
Thanks
That is an excellent treatise quotation you found that speaks right to the point - amazing how well people could write back then. It seems most people of today don’t think or write as clearly.
Instead, they repeat empty platitudes like “preserve the union”, “revenue neutrality”, “white privilege” or “social justice”. It seems they are trying to discredit logic and critical thinking by attaching pejorative associations to words.