People have rights.
States have powers given them by the people.
The Civil War began with the insistence of the free people of the Southern states that they had the authority to deprive the servile people of the Southern states of their rights,and that they and their states had the authority to compel the free people of the other states to assist them in depriving those servile people of their rights.
The term "states' rights" is an oxymoron for the unintelligent to indulge in unreason.
Well said.
States rights vis a vis the Federal government dictating to the states.
War of Northern Aggression because the North waged economic warfare against the South for many years prior to the South firing the first shot.
I’ll grant that slavery was an issue, but the war was about economics — high tariffs, imposed by Yankee industrialist’s bought and paid for Congressmen and Senators, were strangling the South.
“States do not have rights...The term “states’ rights” is an oxymoron for the unintelligent to indulge in unreason.”
I guess Jefferson and Madison needed your genius to instruct them:
“The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
“The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution. In doing so, they argued for states’ rights and strict constructionism of the Constitution. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 were written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively.”