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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (171607)	8/15/2001 2:25:15 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 769670

States Rights My brother sent me an article from the Atlantic Monthly that discussed a new book on the subject, "States Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 by Forrest McDonald, University Press of Kansas. Some extracts from the review. "Programmed into the human soul is a preference for the near and familiar and a suspicion of the remote and abstract". Forrest McDonald Is it intrinsic, the connection of states rights and slavery and racial discrimination? If the defenders of slavery and segregation rested their constitutional cases on states" rights, so did the progressives who strove to curb the power of entrenched corporate wealth. Northern states invokes states' rights in their "personal liberty laws" designed to protect runaway slaves. The South abandoned states rights to secure the Fugitive Slave Act. Neither good nor bad, it is changing and evolving. edit: And possibly the federal government will begin losing powers that they have abused.

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