The Constitution of Consensus

Ratification of the Constitution annihilated one Congress and created another. It also established that the States had a right to exist, and a right to abolish the Congress, the President, the Supreme Court. Nevertheless, for almost two centuries 'conservatives' (first Federalists and then Republicans) have been telling us that the Congress is equal to the State legislatures, the U.S. courts to those of the States. And indeed they must be believed, if it is true that the U.S. judges have the authority of the judges or commissioners of the court of the Continental Congress, viz. to decide by majority. If Congress can act without the judges being agreed, then it can act without the States being agreed. There are, however, three grounds for rejecting this position. First, the historical record. Second, the evidence of the Constitution itself. Third, the fact that no (reasonable) man could hold the law to be so.