The Delcarartion of Independence and the Constitution are very clearly ANTI-STATES RIGHTS. States and all government entities have POWERS. Only PERSONS HAVE RIGHTS. Rights come from God/Natural Law to PERSONS. A person has the right to life, libertry, pursuit; a state does not have a right to life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. A person has a right to bear arms. A state does not have a right to bear arms. Same with all rights.
Use of the term “states rights” is one of the biggest blunders by conservatives in both the logic and the emotion of their arguments. Both the illogic and the misplaced emotion are counter-productive.
That's very clearly untrue: simply imagine a corporation being robbed, does it have the right to seek redress in the courts?
Obviously it does; but this is an example of a legal right.
What you are referring to that only people have are natural rights, but their existence does not preclude other rights (such as legal rights).