Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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States rights and Constitutional government are inseparable. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States very clearly states the position of the states as related to the federal government, and here is what it says:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
We have heard much here of late with reference to the rights of states being sacrificed and ruthlessly destroyed by an all-consuming federal government. The federal government is constantly making a whipping boy out of the states and is assuming to exercise powers it does not have under the...
No one on the panel had the heart to point out to Mr. Barnett that the Constitution, since 1819, at least, has not been constructed as a "creature of the states." In his greatest opinion (McCulloch v. Maryland), Chief Justice Marshall established the fact that "the government of the Union...
The professors tried valiantly to discuss some of the Governor's address. They pointed out, for example, that Mississippi's industrialization (so eloquently depicted by Mr. Barnett) would eventually force the state to abandon its segregation views and accept the Constitution. But these lucid arguments did not completely expose the...