Tangentially, "fighting for states' rights" is a common falsehood told by apologists for the Confederacy in the US civil war. Not only did the slave states try

Tangentially, "fighting for states' rights" is a common falsehood told by apologists for the Confederacy in the US civil war. Not only did the slave states try to force other states to tolerate slavery within their own borders, but the biggest changes in the Confederacy's constitution was how it permanently removed rights from its member-states.