Only the people in states are represented, not states themselves. The only intentions that states have are the ones expressed by the representatives elected by the voters of those states. The idea that states are somehow sentient beings is mysticism. The Founders viewed states the particular way they did because originally, they were truly sovereign gubmits with their own militaries and their own peculiar laws. The Commonwealth of Virginia taxed its citizens to fund an official church, for example. These little "states" had to be persuaded to join to form the republic, so initially there was a great deal of deference shown to the notion of individual states. Later states began as territories of the United States with the intention of attaining statehood. Now all states are subject to the same Constitution and are much more interconnected than in the young nation. Continuing to pretend they're little sovereign entities isn't really very democratic.