There's no such thing as "states' rights". States, like all levels of government, have no rights. Government has powers, not rights, and only those powers gran

There's no such thing as "states' rights". States, like all levels of government, have no rights. Government has powers, not rights, and only those powers granted it by Federal/State constitutions. People sometimes misstate the concept of limited Federal powers as "states' rights", but the term generally reflects ignorance.