I disagree. The constitution failed in 1861. Implied in the nature of a social contract is the principle of secession. If you can't leave, then the government doesn't serve you, you serve the government.
It failed even worse when Lincoln instituted the draft. The government protects your rights... until it declares war, in which case it can round you up like a bunch of slaves, hand you off to be ordered about by incompetent religious loonies, and execute you for treason if you exercise your 1st Amendment right to complain. The entire theory and foundation of the constitution was thrown out by the children and grandchild of those who wrote it. (I'm a northerner btw.)
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