re: #91 Mostly sane, most of the time.

The problem I have with the whole pre-Civil-War “state’s rights” arguments is that in many states only one adult in four could vote. That’s hardly government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

And, surprise, in those states the laws egregiously favored white men. No woman came up with the idea that when she got married, she forfeited all her possessions to her husband, or that it was perfectly legal to beat your wife.

State’s rights were always laughable. Slave states routinely violated the rights of free states with their “runaway slave laws”, plus the Slave States were perfectly happy with a strong Federal government if it happened to back them up.