America will never solve its gun problem until it gets over its fetish for the Founding Fathers.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

222. You're comparing cities to states. We're talking political divisions.

Does Fresno have it's own National Guard? No. Okay, so it's no where near the same political division as a state. Fresno cannot supply all its own needs, hence it belongs to a wider political entity called a state.

So now the question becomes: how much power do equally situated political entities possess?

And yes, if CA agreed to the terms of joining the union they are obligated to abide by those terms. I'm not sure which bizarre world let's you think you can ignore your obligations but somehow impose obligations on me and expect me to passively accept them.

And that being said here is your even stickier wicket: you want to change the voting scheme; but how will you do that? CA votes 20 times to change it to your favored while WY only gets to vote once? Just by proposing it your tyranny over others who would reject your scheme becomes manifest. And really, that's all this is. You want the power to run roughshod over other states without having to consider them. You want to impose on people your policies even if those policies are detrimental to them and you couldn't care less how it effects them. You can take their money, their resources and won't even pay them the consideration of a voice in how they are governed.

What you are proposing is nothing less then the practical equivalent of neo-colonialism.