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“...Note that governments do not have “rights.” Rather, they have only powers.
This obviously goes for states as well, which is why it is absurd to argue for “states rights” in order to bypass the Constitution and restrict human rights.
Which is why the Confederate assouls who used “states-rights” as a pretext to restrict and deny the rights of human beings were anything but conservative. For only a leftist could believe that the state has a supernatural right to strip man of his natural rights.....”
Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2841340/posts?page=35#35
—which is why it is absurd to argue for “states rights”—
Actually, no. The context of the phrase “states rights” is the same as the context of “citizen’s rights”. The context is “states ‘rights’ vs the federal government’s power over the states “right” to exercise their own power.