“Since your only contribution to the discussion has been to tell me how wrong I am.....”
I infer that you don’t think it’s a contribution to try to point out weaknesses in your position, thus giving you an opportunity to strengthen it.
“Each State...is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act.”
Arguably, by their voluntary (more or less) acts they bound themselves in Union, not by ratifying the Constitution of course. Arguably, by their voluntary acts they prohibited themselves from violating that to which they bound themselves.
Trying to point out weakness in an established fact with nothing more than opinion is an 'opportunity' based on a fallacious argument.
A historically recognized legal work shows the States do have and always have had the ability to leave the Compact at will.
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Arguably, by their voluntary acts they prohibited themselves from violating that to which they bound themselves.
LOL! Such twisted logic to try to argue against such a simple concept.
“Each State...is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act.”
If a State is bound by its own voluntary act, it can be unbound by it.
Otherwise, the association is no longer 'voluntary', but compulsory.
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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
The Federalist No. 45 January 1788
[James Madison]