Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:14:21 PM
Some information I have come across, about James Madison and states. This is from what I found not my original work.
James Madison
[one significant argument concerned the use of the word state] had
objected to the idea that states had created the Federal government.
The Philadelphia Convention was not a state organ, nor were the
ratification conventions parts of the state government. The states had
not created the federal government.
Madison noted that the word
state had three common significations [something that is signified;
meaning or sense]: Could refer to the territory of a state, to a state
government, or the sovereign people of a state. You can't read the word
state purely as referring to state government.
I would recommend
reading Madison's sequel to the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, the
Report of 1800. In this he objected to the Federalist policy in the
1790s.
The Virginia Resolutions used the word state to refer to
the sovereign people of Virginia. The Union was a union of sovereign
peoples; as in the people of each state.