States’ rights and slavery

What experts have said about States’ rights and slavery

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1. Gary William GallagherNegativeJul 28, 2026· Lex Fridman Podcast

   Southern states’ principal claimed states’ right concerned protecting slavery from federal interference.

   “There's only one. The state right that they're worried about is the right of their state. To interpose its power between a federal government that might try to interfere with slavery and a state government that wants to maintain it.”

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