2006-12-02 07:08:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The whole question of states rights has not been resolved. The federal government keeps on making laws effecting areas where the constitution leaves the law making in those areas to the states. Education is one of the main areas.
The question of states rights was a Civil War cause. The idea whether a state had slaves or not was one of the states rights issues.
In the North, states rights are used more for controlling the education systems. Up until recently, the standards, what level a person had to achieve, how much help the disabled got were determined by each state. Since national funding came in to the education field, the federal government has laws tied to receiving the funding.
I feel the Constitution should be applied better to each situation. If the federal government is not suppose to cover that area of law, it should be the states right to make their individual laws in that situation. However, if a law really does effect all the people in the country, it should be made by the Federal government and acknowledge the states.
I don't believe in discrimination against people, and I don't believe in the Federal government discriminating against states who disagree with them.
The marriage law situation is being dealt as a states rights issue when it should be dealt with on the federal level since it effects too many people.
2006-12-02 07:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by femalegtrst 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thank God that states rights do not supersede the rights of the union. I do believe that if state rights in the sense in which it was acted upon in the 1800's were still strong there would be a bunch of "good ole boy states" and the wheels of progress in all areas would have been to a slow grind kind of like it is now in some southern states.
2006-12-02 07:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by kyle g 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although "states' rights" was used as a rallying cry for the Southern Confederacy and is still parrotted by their apologists today, after 30 years of study I have yet to find one single states' right the Federal government was threatening to take away in 1860.
It made a dam' useful excuse for that sorry lot of traitors, weasels and losers, though, as long as no one stopped to examine it closely.
2006-12-02 09:15:58 · answer #3 · answered by blueprairie 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hurt the south more..?
2006-12-02 07:11:20 · answer #4 · answered by Buddy Love 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋