For me it is individual rights over state, the reason is state rights are pretty much "the majority rule by paying off the right people", lets take of gay & civil rights, to this day many states still try to block gays from equality, in the 1960's states where the ones trying to keep blacks from having there constitutional rights, if it wasn't for the Federal government stepping in we to this day might still have blacks sitting on the back of the bus in some state.

State and federal rights should be to protect individual rights, but that isn't the case, state rights are to protect corporations that want to bend the rules in order to maximize profits, like allowing chemical companies to spill waste in local streams and river beds.

Another prime example is with state rights religious institutions will have there way, prayer in public schools, the teaching of creation in public school and so on, state rights is a lie, it is nothing more then a public auction up for bidding by any corporate interest or religious cult, state rights are the prostitutes of America.

Despite how much I hate right wingers as people and religious fundies, I have to say that personal rights are more important. I believe dictators can rule well, and even better than democracies. However those dictators are few and far because real leaders in humans are few and far. Most humans seem not to have it in them.

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A Wise man said a person is smart, but People are dumb. The end should read a person is good or evil, people don't give a damn enough to qualify. I'd rather have dumb and apathetic at the wheel than Smart and selfish evil.

I am for the rights of the individual because Government should not dictate to us on how to lead our lives.