Federalism, properly understood, respects both federal & state power as a vertical separation of powers to protect the liberty of the people. Also a horizontal separation among the states: taken to their extreme, the rights of a state can trample the rights of every other state.https://twitter.com/crypticcondor/status/1202628540405080064 …
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A crucial part of what radicalized the North by 1860 was the conviction that the South had no respect for state's rights of the rest of the country, as illustrated by Dred Scott, the Fugitive Slave Law, the beating of Sumner on the Senate floor.
8:45 AM - 5 Dec 2019
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