[Frumious Bandersnatch]

unlike the IX which was only ratified after these same legislatures were removed by the federal government.

Correction - I meant the IV not the IX.

[lentulusgracchus]

I caught the correction, thanks.

Now, if I could get you to answer my question about the "Suitors of Penelope"......you remember what happened to them after Odysseus and his companions closed and bolted the doors. Is that what the States got, when they ratified the Constitution? Were they trapped in a locked room with a federal predator?

[Twodees]

You shouldn't try to use Roman numerals if you don't understand the principles involved in their use. You should avoid any discussion of the Constitution for the same reason. You don't even have a rudimentary grasp of the principles involved in the US Constitution and its establishment of a relationship between the states and the federal union. Stop embarrassing yourself.