Talk:States' rights
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[edit] States' Rights and a Code Word
This whole section smacks of bias, and could be articulated in less of an ad hominem circumstantial manner to discredit states' rights doctrines. States rights by way of interposition was also used by Wisconsin in the 1850s to nullify fugitive slave laws.
This whole section is nothing but an ad hominem, and a partisan attack with not a scintilla of proof. No politician in their right mind sets out with the goal of giving a stump speech on the site of slain civil rights activists to tacitly cast a stone at their legacy. That's asinine and this non-sense shouldn't be in the wiki article.
On the opening day of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, the new candidate declared, "I believe in states' rights" in a speech at Neshoba County fairgrounds near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Philadelphia was the site of the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Andrew Young, Bob Herbert and others believed that Reagan's choice of this location to give his states' rights speech constituted a veiled appeal to southern segregationists.[1][2]. Reagan's campaign staff, however, denied any connection.[3] At the same event, Strom Thurmond, by then an anti-segregation[citation needed] Republican senator from South Carolina), declared: "We want that federal government to keep their filthy hands off the rights of the states." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.187.16.35 (talk) 15:04, January 19, 2008
Events from the American Civil War through the American Civil Rights Movement gave the phrase "states' rights" a history that made it a code word. A few Republicans sought to use it for political advancement.Jimmuldrow (talk) 05:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
If you don't like the term, may I propose a more appropriate title that is more in line with constitutional concepts rather than rhetoric -- State Sovereignty. "Rights" isn't technically correct and has emotional history, and "powers" doesn't describe the contention with the federal government. QuilaBird (talk) 16:42, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
