Portal:States' rights

Documents

• United States Bill of Rights, especially article 12 (the 10th amendment) (1791)
• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798, 1799)
• State Documents on Federal Relations, Ames (collection, 1906)
  • Wisconsin's Declaration of Defiance

Commentary

Support

• A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Upshur (1840)
• A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States, Calhoun (1851)
• State Rights and Byron Paine, Schurz (1859)
  • State Rights: Reply to Criticism
• The Doctrine of State Rights, Davis (1890)

Opposition

• Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Story
• Webster's Second Reply to Hayne, Webster (1830)