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	states' rights. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Although proslavery forces are usually identified with a strong states’ rights position, the legislature of Wisconsin adopted (1859) resolutions defending state sovereignty after the Supreme Court overruled the Wisconsin courts and upheld the conviction of an abolitionist editor for violating the fugitive slave law.
		Eleven Southern states seceded in 1860–61 and formed the Confederacy, in which, fittingly, the doctrine of states’ rights was upheld by such governors as Joseph E. Brown and Zebulon B. Vance.
		In the presidential election of 1948, a Southern states’ rights party (the Dixiecrats) was organized with J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as its candidate, and it carried four Southern states.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/statesri.html (863 words)

	States' Rights
		The principle of states' rights and state sovereignty eventually led the Southern states to secede from the central government that they believed had failed to honor the covenant that had originally bound the states together.
		Northern proposals to abolish or restrict slavery- an institution firmly protected by the Constitution- escalated the regional differences in the country and rallied the Southern states firmly behind the doctrine of states' rights and the sovereignty of the individual states.
		The Confederacy that was subsequently formed by the seceded states was patterned on the doctrine of states' rights.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/statesrights.html (284 words)

	Wikinfo \| States' rights
		The principle of states' rights was the fulcrum on which many of the political battles preceding the American Civil War were balanced.
		Other controversial subjects entering the states' rights debate include the authority to legalize assisted suicide, the authority to legalize gay marriage, and the authority to legalize medical marijuana, the last of which is in direct contravention of current federal U.S. law.
		The most important intellectual offspring of the States' Rights philosophy was born in the mind of President Woodrow Wilson, himself sympathetic to Southern ideas (his Southern ancestry and love of the movie The Birth of a Nation bear out this point).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=States_Rights (947 words)

	States' Rights Blog Alliance
		One of the real difficulties advocates of states' rights fight constantly is the straw man argument surrounding the validity of the philosophy of states' rights and the connection to the Southern states passion for the ideal.
		Prior to a cataclysmic event as momentous as states actually exercising their rights and sovereignty in 1861 no nationalist could dream of expanding the scope and breadth of the federal union to mean what it meant after 1867.
		States' rights, the Federal government is left to police itself and the states and the people are nothing more than mere subjects to that government.
	www.secessionist.us /blog_alliance.htm (2105 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Political Culture: States' Rights
		States' Rights refers to a doctrine embraced by opponents of a strong and vigorous national government.
		In short, states' rights advocates, in sharp distinction from Whigs who favored cooperation between state and national governments to achieve beneficial ends, tended to see the balance of power within the federal system as a zero-sum gain.
		States' rights and strict construction were often used as interchangeable concepts to rail against nationalistic policies as unconstitutional usurpations of state power.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-statesrights.html (449 words)

	States Rights, One of the Causes of the Civil War
		State rights and strict construction were usually the arguments of the party out of power (and so they were to he throughout American history).
		When dealing with the subject, the Federal government must act merely as a trustee for the states and must give effect to their laws, particularly the laws respecting slavery State rights was no longer just a defense of local self-determination; it had become a means of imposing a states laws on people outside the state.
		The 1860 South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession quoted the states 1852 declaration, which said that "the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States," would justify the state in withdrawing from the Union.
	www.civilwarhome.com /statesrights.htm (3802 words)

	The States’ Rights Tradition Nobody Knows by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
		The Virginia Resolutions spoke of the states’ right to "interpose" between the federal government and the people of the state; the Kentucky Resolutions (in a 1799 follow-up to the original resolutions) used the term "nullification" — the states, they said, could nullify unconstitutional federal laws.
		The governor of this state is under a high and solemn obligation, "to maintain the lawful rights and privileges thereof, as a sovereign, free and independent state," as he is "to support the constitution of the United States," and the obligation to support the latter, imposes an additional obligation to support the former.
		The sovereignty reserved to the states, was reserved to protect the citizens from acts of violence by the United States, as well as for purposes of domestic regulation.
	www.lewrockwell.com /woods/woods44.html (1929 words)

	States' Rights vs. Monetary Monopoly by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
		The citizens of the states reserved the right to offer their own opinions on constitutionality, which they often considered to be every bit as valid as the Court’s.
		While in prison, the keys to the state vaults were physically taken from him and the feds took back the $100,000, apparently still in the same trunk.
		It was this expression of citizen sovereignty, in the spirit of the Jeffersonian states’ rights tradition, that made Jackson’s veto of the bank politically possible.
	www.lewrockwell.com /dilorenzo/dilorenzo45.html (1199 words)

	State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The state is therefore considered the most central concept in the study of politics, and its definition is the subject of intense scholarly debate.
		The rise of the "modern state" as a public power constituting the supreme political authority within a defined territory is associated with western Europe's gradual institutional development beginning in earnest in the late 15th century, culminating in the rise of absolutism and capitalism.
		Given the increasing institutional access to the state and role in the development of public policy by many parts of civil society, it is increasingly difficult to identify the boundaries of the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/States (2571 words)

	States' Rights
		States do not get the chance to decide which laws or treaties or elections they will obey and which they won't--neither nullification nor secession is part of their limited, constitutionally granted powers.
		The myth of states' rights and state sovereignty is increasingly identified with the defense of minority opinions at odds with the will of the majority.
		States' Rights were despised by the like of 'pledge my loyalty only to the central government' Alexander Hamilton.
	quicksitebuilder.cnet.com /sartrejp/TWINS/id33.html (2407 words)

	States' Rights
		Conservatives are the historical defenders of states' rights, and the supposed proponents of keeping big government out of people's lives, but this case once again shows that some social conservatives are happy to see the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country.
		There is an inconsistency from leaders of the Religious Right between a belief in states' rights, or minimal federal government, and a drive for control and domination of a nation.
		As a member of the Federalist Society and leader of the Religious Right, former Attorney General John Ashcroft espoused the value of states' rights.
	www.theocracywatch.org /states_rights2.htm (1466 words)

	Reagan: A Legacy of States' Rights
		States' rights logically flowed into a related issue--radical individualism, with every private business having the right to welcome or exclude whomever it wished from its form of transportation, restaurant, hotel or motel.
		For states' righters, the federal government is not to meddle in the internal affairs of states, especially the internal affairs of conservative Southern states, which were merely protecting "their Southern way of life"--heritage, not hatred.
		Reagan, the states' rights conservative, was allegedly "sensitive" and "didn't have a racially discriminatory bone in his body"--the parallel to Bush's compassionate conservatism.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040628/jackson (1245 words)

	Last Rites for States Rights? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Predating the proposed federal patients rights bill for managed care recipients were the policies of forty-one states that banned the use of so-called gag clauses in communications between HMO doctors and patients.
		The states, in short, are as likely to have their independence shorn when they are proactive and progressive as when they are laggards.
		Once many state and local governments became, so to speak, federal aid junkies, they would be at the mercy of congressional benefactors and federal patron agencies that could attach to their dollars increasingly elaborate requirements.
	www.brookings.edu /comm/reformwatch/rw01.htm (6025 words)

	Dobbs: Federal wrongs and states' rights - CNN.com
		Whereas states' rights have at times in our history been the refuge of those committed to the status quo, and at times used to retrograde impulses, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which insures states' rights, now appears to be our brightest hope for an enduring republic.
		Ten of those states even tied future increases in the minimum wage to inflation, exhibiting both foresight and a commitment to working Americans that I hope will be emulated by this Congress and this president.
		Both New Mexico and Arizona have declared states of emergency because their borders with Mexico are being overrun by illegal immigration, and voters of Arizona have passed five state initiatives to curtail illegal immigration.
	www.cnn.com /2007/US/01/16/Dobbs.January16 (968 words)

	States' rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The reaction was a states' rights Dixiecrat revolt led by Strom Thurmond.
		States' rights was the argument for fillibusters to block civil rights bills, including a record more than 24 hour fillibuster by Thurmond.
		Other conservatives hold the states' rights belief that a government is better when closer to the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/States'_rights (2354 words)

	States Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It would be inappropriate to say that murdering someone in one state is punishable by lethal injection but that same crime committed in another state is not punishable by lethal injection but instead punishable by life imprisonment.
		We have some states that do not want alcohol to be part of their social fabric and have decided to not allow it within their borders.
		We are also still giving them the right to maintain their respective local societies in the manner that they have grown accustomed to by allowing their local state representatives to vote on issues that are near and dear to the people they govern.
	home.earthlink.net /~maxhamforpresident/id14.html (910 words)

	States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (American Political Thought): Current Amazon U.S.A. ...
		In living memory, "states' rights" is most notoriously associated with Southern resistance to desegregation and civil rights; in historical memory it's most notoriously associated with Southern secession and the Civil War.
		States' rights was deeply intertwined with most major issues of America's first hundred years, from the very formation of government, to battles over the Bank of the United States, internal improvements (such as roads), the Louisiana Purchase, military policy tariffs and Reconstruction.
		With this broad principle in hand, he traces the states' rights idea from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Reconstruction and illuminates the constitutional, political, and economic contexts in which it evolved.
	www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0700612270 (952 words)

	states' rights — Infoplease.com
		states' rights: A Justification for Secession - A Justification for Secession Although proslavery forces are usually identified with a strong...
		states' rights: In the Twentieth Century - In the Twentieth Century Although the Union victory in the Civil War definitively ended the...
		Starting with the right slices: a new state-of-the-art plant is equipped with the latest in slicing capability to meet burgeoning......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0846562.html (316 words)

	Declaration of States' Rights Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
		The United States of America (Federal Government) was born in 1789 with the ratification of the Constitution by free and independent states.
		Amendment 10 to the Constitution states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." We hold that the right to withdraw from the Union is a right of the States.
		As such when the Federal Government exceeds its delegated powers or fails to execute its specified duties and states fail to exercise their rights under the compact of the Constitution the right of The People to abolish those governments and institute new governments is inalienable.
	www.ipetitions.com /petition/November (669 words)

	AlterNet: States Rights vs. Federal Tyranny
		In a reversal of history, a federal court in December embraced the concept of states' rights to assert the right of a state majority to defend its minorities from federal tyranny.
		For many of us, the phrase "states' rights" has been viewed as code for the right of a state's majority to tyrannize its minorities.
		For in December a federal court embraced the concept of states' rights to assert the right of a state majority to defend its minorities from federal tyranny.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17647 (829 words)

	United States - States' Rights vs third party Intellectual Property rights
		Flores had restricted this right to situations in which there "was a congruence and proportionality between the injury to be prevented or remedied and the means adopted for that end".
		In the misleading advertising case, the court reached the conclusion that there was no property right that could be taken by the state so that the threshold for considering the application of the "taking of property" provision of the Fourteenth Amendment was not reached.
		The remedies provided by the states for patent infringement by state entities, if they exist at all, vary from state to state and are in the most part cumbersome.
	www.ladas.com /BULLETINS/1999/0899Bulletin/US_IPvsStateRights.html (1098 words)

	Goodbye to states' rights - Opinion - theage.com.au
		The decision leaves the states more vulnerable to federal intervention and more dependent on the goodwill of the prime minister of the day.
		As Kirby stated, the decision runs the risk of "destabilising the federal character of the Australian constitution" and further reducing the states to the service agencies of the Commonwealth.
		He went on to suggest that if the Commonwealth argument was correct, the corporations power might be used for education, defamation law, liquor licensing, banking and even to "enact that no officer of a corporation shall be an atheist or a Baptist, or that all must be teetotallers".
	www.theage.com.au /news/opinion/goodbye-to-states-rights/2006/11/14/1163266550931.html (962 words)

	If at first you don't secede - Salon
		One of the resounding victories in the 2004 election was the California proposition allotting $3 billion in state dollars for embryonic stem-cell research.
		Colorado, another state that voted for Bush, also passed a measure requiring state utilities to get 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2015.
		Meanwhile, even as gay rights are preempted or rolled back on the national level -- and in some states -- Connecticut looks set to join Vermont in legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/11/16/states/index.html (712 words)

	WorkingForChange-The new states' rights
		The new states' rights means enhancing the ability of states to solve problems that our current federal government won't confront.
		The standard accounts of the Bay State health saga are accurate as far as they go: Romney, who is expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination, proposed that every resident of the state be required to purchase health insurance, much as they are required to buy automobile insurance.
		When Romney and state Senate President Robert Travaglini balked at the employer assessment, a coalition that included the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, and the advocacy group Health Care for All gathered over 113,000 signatures to put a health care initiative on the Massachusetts ballot.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=20806 (806 words)

	Report: National ID card, eminent domain, could trample states' rights
		OLYMPIA, Wash. -- States are continuing to see their authority stepped on by the federal government, something that not only curtails their independence in dealing with such matters as elections and education, but in the case of a new national ID card, could cost them financially, according to a new report.
		Michael Balboni, R-N.Y., noted that states were working with the federal government on creating standards, but that they were ultimately left out of the law that passed.
		Other states either expressly allow private property to be taken for private economic purposes or have not spoken clearly to the question.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/august2005/180805statesrights.htm (875 words)

	Dean's World - Return to States' Rights by the Left?
		Despite the claim that states' rights is primarily about racism (which it was at one time for some people--mostly people who are dead now), there are all sorts of reasons to let states and localities make their own choices.
		State and local restrictions are already ignoring the second amendment with feel good legislation.
		By 2003, only 14 states were left that had such laws, and of those dozen or so, almost none of them had serious efforts to enforce them.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1101130217.shtml (2819 words)

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