Difference between revisions of "States' rights"

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States' rights is a piss poor excuse for continuing slavery in the modern world.

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-'''States' rights''' refers to the rights of the several states against the [[federal]] government, in [[American history]].  The concept of states' rights, and its alleged violations at the hands of the federal government, was a central topic in the [[Civil War]].  There, the [[Confederacy]] believed that the [[Union]] abridged the rights of the southern states by seeking to end slavery, among other things.
+'''States' rights''' is a piss poor excuse for continuing slavery in the modern world.
-Further, the term refers to the continued question of [[federalism]] in modern United States politics.
-==See also==
-*[[Tenth Amendment]]
-[[Category:United States History]]
-[[category:United States Political Terms]]