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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: States.
This rule is in perfect accordance with the fundamental
principles of the Federal Constitution. The Union, as it was
established in 1789, possesses, it is true, a limited supremacy;
but it was intended that within its limits it should form one and
the same people. *h Within those limits the Union is sovereign.
When this point is established and admitted, the inference is
easy; for if it be acknowledged that the United States constitute
one and the same people within the bounds prescribed by their
Constitution, it is impossible to refuse them the rights which
belong to other nations. But it has been allowed, from the
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