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There are competing theories about the Constitution being a compact or not.

It is the opinion of courts that the Constitution is not a compact, but the majority of the authors of the Federalist Papers refer to the Constitution as a compact.

A compact refers more to the founding document of a confederation such as the Articles of Confederation.

According to Wikipedia, the States were the creators of the Articles of Confederation.
The People of the United States are the creators of the Constitution.

Compact theory

The federal system being destitute of both, wants the great vital principles of a Political Constitution. Under the form of such a constitution, it is in fact nothing more than a treaty of amity of commerce and of alliance, between independent and Sovereign States.

From: Vices of the Political System of the United States, James Madison apparently referring to the Article of Confederation. However.. *drum roll*

What if the 1788 Constitution Convention was nothing but a private corporate charter masquerading as a de jure constitutional convention?