The Future Value of Our Dual Sovereignty and States Rights

The Civil War scared people away from speaking of States Rights. This is understandable given the great pain and suffering caused in that tragedy. But times are changing, science and demographics move ever forward, and this subject will be introduced again.

Much will depend on reemphasizing the power of the states, without renouncing the federal government. But perhaps the most important development will be in interpreting, or reinterpreting, the importance of group selection and states rights over abstract individualism, without losing individual rights. And no-one wants to bring slavery back.

In the past this was a legal argument regarding “compact theory,” the theory that states, not individuals, are the principles of the Constitution.. More recently it is the Tenth Amendment  people who affirm that: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Science has moved forward and developed a better understanding of human nature, for example, in the field of sociobiology, which has reaffirmed group selection as a natural law. This can help deepen and strengthen the states rights arguments.

The coming reality of demographic change (a reality few people like to look at) predicts increasing conflict between different people, races, and cultures in America, and in the world, therefore emphasizing the importance of small independent states to separate the combatants will help to avoid violence and even secession. This is not fun to contemplate but it is realism.

The United States has a great advantage in having a Constitution which provided dual sovereignty to the states and the federal government. But we will need to interpret the Constitution as giving far more power to the individual states. This way moderate conservatism can prevail over radicalism, and Ordered Evolution  can continue.