The term "states rights" is carefully coded. It doesn't "more rights". It means "The state has rights, and you don't". It's not a path to "individual rights";

The term "states rights" is carefully coded. It doesn't "more rights". It means "The state has rights, and you don't". It's not a path to "individual rights"; it's exactly the opposite. The term gets bandied about most often when the federal government wants to guarantee an individual right, and a local majority doesn't want the individual to have it. The poster child for "states rights" is the Lost Cause mythology. What rights were the states demanding to have? They were very explicit about it: the right to own human beings, and ensure that they had no rights whatsoever. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...