It is quite evident to me that all men are created equal. Are you suggesting that the States have the right to suppress the civil rights of some "men" but not others?
No. I just believe that state's rights have been changed for the worse because of and since the Civil War as a result of what happened. I do not feel that slavery was the number one priority or factor in the Civil War.
Are you suggesting that the States have the right to suppress the civil rights of some "men" but not others?
No he was suggesting that the states were sovereign nations who delegated authority to the federal government with the express reservation that the states had the right to resume such delegated powers any time the federal government sought to overstep it's authority.
This entire concept is completely lost on most people today.
The creation of the individual states is attributable to, and therefore all states are beholden to, the common principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
Just because each state charts their own course within the confines of a larger Republic, they have no precedent to abridge those rights that the Republic considers inalienable.
Our founding fathers didn't consider slaves as "equal"....
Neither did the US Constitution.
All men(women) are NOT created equal.