Ranked Vote: What are the Nation's Top Issues Most Needing to be Addressed (US)?

Yes, the states won their sovereignty by winning the revolutionary war.

Yes, the states formed a confederation and agreed to delegate certain enumerated powers to the general government they created by means of their treaty.

 

The original Articles of Confederation proved to be ineffective and were subsequently replaced by the current Constitution that we have today.

 

I was referring to our current constitution. The states formed a confederation and agreed to delegate certain enumerated powers to the general government they created by means of their treaty.

 

foreign outsourcing and foreign import - jobs jobs jobs

it's also a national security risk to have other foreign countries control all our data

and the tariffs should be for goods, not natural resources

 

campaign finance reform. No big money donors to ANY candidate.

 

When they entered into their treaty, the states delegate to the general government certain powers regarding interstate trade and common defense. they agreed that laws made to carry out these powers would be the supreme law of the land.

That's how treaties among sovereign states work. They delegate some powers in order to receive a perceived benefit. As long as a state wishes to remain a party to the treaty, it must abide by the terms to which it agreed.

 

Only a sovereign state can ratify a treaty.

A state may, via treaty, subordinate certain powers to those of the treaty, just as it may withdraw from the treaty. The subordination exists only so long as the state that is party to the treaty agrees to remain in said treaty.

 

They were. We know this:

"His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof."​

None, because the terms of the treaty they ratified specified that the would not do so.

Yes, I know you're Meta.

 

They agreed in the treaty to not engage in any other treaties. They did this when they, as sovereign states, ratified the treaty constituting the united states.

As I said in one of my previous posts, when a sovereign state enters into a treaty, it typically agrees to some limits on its actions. That's why treaties exists in the first place.

 

Nope. They are sovereign states that have entered into a treaty. One of the terms of this treaty is that none of them enter into any other treaty.

 

Not really. Any of the sovereign states may exit the treaty any time it chooses. They still maintain their legal sovereignty. And then they would withdraw the powers they delegated to the general government.

 

I don't see any language in the treaty stating otherwise. Can you point to the language in the treaty that says a state may not leave the treaty?

 

Can you point to the language in the treaty that says a state may not leave the treaty?

 

What article and section?