States' rights

The English used in this article or section may not be easy for everybody to understand. You can help Wikipedia by reading Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages, then simplifying the article. (August 2023)

States' rights is a belief found in the United States Constitution in which some rights are reserved for state governments and may not be changed by the federal government.^[1] They are also protected by the Tenth Amendment as part of the Bill of Rights.^[1] The discussion over states' rights is the oldest constitutional debate in the United States.^[2] People are still debating about it.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "States' Rights". Legal Dictionary. Farlex. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
2. ↑ Sotirios A. Barber. The Fallacies of States' Rights(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013), p. 1