Dividing Quote by Elizabeth Price Foley

Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the…

— Antonin Scalia

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

— Naveen Patnaik

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

“The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too short to protect the rights of individuals in the interior of…

— Frederick Douglass

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and…

— Dave Rubin

And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government…

— Gary Ackerman

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain…

— Jonathan Turley

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states'…

— Robert Kennedy