In particular, we need to emphasize that the United States, which used to be called "These United States" was founded as a compact between the states.
That's true, but states' rights aren't in conflict with individual rights.
"While I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only are essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."
That is why I believe that the death of states' rights is really a clarion call for states to defy the federal government and assert their rights independently of Washington and its minions.
Already a majority of the country feels that states should ignore federal programs they don't agree with and a quarter are in favor of secession.
Let's do everything we can to promote states' rights and resist federal tyranny.
He is the author of Against the State and Against the Left.
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