Burden Quote by Josh Hawley

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

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to…

— Russell Pearce

Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor…

— David B. Rivkin

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

— Asma Jahangir

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

“The state is for the recognition, endorsement, and protection of rights, which means creating the conditions under which rights can be recognized, endorsed, and…

— Timothy Snyder

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

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

“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

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states…

— Pat Toomey

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

— Anonymous