States’ rights functions as a political slogan, not a settled ideology.

Evidence

But there may be less to this “new federalism” than meets the eye. Issues of federalism have not gone away; and probably will not, as federal and state governments jockey for power and position. “States’ rights” has always been a political slogan, rather than an ideological one. In the modern world, the United States is a national economy; and a major world power. In the modern world, images and messages travel around the world in nanoseconds; and physical travel is rapid in a way that the founding fathers could not have dreamed of. Federalism will survive, but as a junior partner in the massive task of running a mighty superpower and an economy worth trillions of dollars, in a dangerous world of nations locked into a system of mutual dependence. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 699

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State sovereignty itself functions as a marketable natural resource. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 663; The Supreme Court blocked federal child-labor law until the New Deal. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 675; Movement focus on state power is a secular-state response, not ideology — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 971

Broader Connections

• Movement focus on state power is a secular-state response, not ideology #expands (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 971