Quote Originally Posted by Vuk View Post
States Rights work like this Strike.
Federal Government does something that some States don't want to abide by.
They say that it is their Right to not abide by it.
What that something is has changed many times over history, and during that particular time in History was what States Rights were defined by.
What I am saying is do not attack the issue of States Rights, because the proper balance between Federal and State power is a matter of much good debate, and should not be written off so easily.

The question of slavery and racial superiority is a moral one. The question of who decides is a States Rights issue. You know what I mean?

I know the delicate balancing act between fed and state power has been a lightning rod for many years but it has been misconstrued by the revisonists as something the south had to do because it was being harrunged by the north. When in reality South Carolina would demand rights on the congressional floor and then turn right around and complain that New York had nullified the fugitive slave act. Blatant hypocricsy.

Slavery is incompatible with a republic. The Federal goverment has every right to crack Mississippis head when they are denying human beings there rights clearly and excplicitly stated in the constitution