Delegate John Rutledge, of South Carolina, presents the first draft of the Constitution for the united States to the Constitutional Convention.  The Preamble clarifies that WE THE PEOPLE are acting within their States (“to create a more perfect [voluntary] Union”), not creating those States out of a “mystical union”:

       We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.

Also,

• Article IV, Section 5 – “All bills for raising or appropriating money, and for fixing the salaries of the officers of Government, shall originate in the House of Representatives, and shall not be altered or amended by the Senate.”;
• Article V, Section 4 – “The Senate shall chuse its own President. …”
• Article VI, Section 10 – “The members of each House shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained and paid by the State, in which they shall be chosen.”
• Article VII, Section 1 [Clause 12] – “The Legislature of the United States shall have the power to … subdue a rebellion in any State, on the application of its legislature” ;
• Article VII, Section 6 – “No navigation act shall be passed without the assent of two thirds of the members present in the [sic] each House.”
• Article X, Section 1 – “The President of the United States of America … shall be elected by ballot by the Legislature.  He shall hold his office during the term of seven years; but shall not be elected a second time.”
• Article XI, Section 4 – “The trial of all criminal offences (except in cases of impeachments) shall be in the State where they shall be committed; and shall be by Jury.” [emphasis added]

       [updated 11/23/2024]