Article IV Section I gives the states the right to have their laws given full faith and credit in other states.
Article IV Section II gives the states the right to have individuals charged with crimes under their laws delivered into their authority.
Article IV Section III gives states the right to have sovereign territory from which no new state may be created without the consent of that state.
Article IV Section IV gives the states the right to a republican form of government and to protection against domestic violence.

The 10th Amendment, feeling that the enumerated powers doctrine insufficient to spell out that the states do indeed have rights, states that powers not delegated to the national government nor prohibited to the states is reserved to the states and the people.

Perhaps you merely meant to quibble over what constitutes a “right” rather than a “power” but the distinction is meaningless. Call it whatever you want, but the state has certain “rights” or “powers” that the national government was never meant to intrude upon.

How may times do I have to say it:

States don’t have rights, people have rights.

[T]he idea of simply transferring power from Washington to, say, Trenton, isn’t entirely attractive.

Really? Move to Georgia, then! That’s the beauty of local government.

it doesn’t matter to me whether that power is exercised in Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia, or at the local County Government Center.

Really? You don’t think you’d have an easier time lobbying your neighbors that make up the county government?

I view Federalism as a detox method. Get people to revoke the Fed’s power. Let them use the State as a crutch. Then revoke the State’s power and let them use the local government as a crutch.

Inevitably, some of the local governments will be relatively libertarian. We can then point to those pockets of freedom as examples of how libertarianism works in practice. If the rest fail to appreciate their beauty, we can just migrate to the free areas and let them have their local authoritarianism.

People have been very receptive to this approach. They realize that they have no control over Washington and they could have control over their local gov’t, if only the local gov’t had any power worth controlling.

If Ron Paul was promising to give anything to them, wouldn’t he have had to meet with them or made some type of comment to them that would cause them to think that?

And if Ron Paul was promising to help them advance their racist agenda, don’t you think that woulda been worth more than just $100?

I wonder who these people voted for in previous years. Hmm?

This nonsense is also gaining traction in the circles that already smear Ron Paul. And that’s it, it just goes in circles where they keep talking about it even though they have no audience.

I wonder who the black supremicist groups are donating and supporting? What about the child molestors and homosexuals? I wonder who the gay bashers are supporting?

Maybe we should collect a list of all the evil, terrible people in this country and mark who they vote for or give money to. I bet the list would be pretty small for Ron Paul compared to any other.

These same attacks were used on Perot, Buchanan, Goldwater and even Reagan. And strangely, they always seem to come from the supposed ‘right.’

Nobody wants to point out where Don Black was in Florida of late 2000.

Wishful thinking.

David Bernstein has been genrally supportive of the Iraq War and a very, very zealous supporter of U.S aid to Israel (do a simple google search for zilliions of examples). If you ever thought that there was the slightest chance that he would support an antiwar candidate, you were fooling yourself.

Obama? Do you really intend to vote for him? He supports socialized medicine, tax increases, permanent bases in the Middle East, and intervention of Darfur yet you support him and you oppose Paul. This makes no sense.

“The point is — if libertarian ideas are becoming more widely accepted then there must be some reason why Ron Paul is still well below double digits in every poll.”

See main stream media. See 7 years of terror! terror! terror! Besides, I personally think the land line polls by their nature may be under representing his numbers. We’ll see soon enough.

Appeals to Federalism and state’s rights should be meaningless to someone whose primary concern is individual rights.

I disagree. I don’t know who you work for but the Feds confiscate a 1/3rd or better of my income. They control the value of our dollar to a large degree. The patriot act? No child left behind? Gay Marriage? Gun laws? National debt? Social security? Social welfare? Wealth redistribution? Death penalty? Minimum wage? And so on.

“The point is — if libertarian ideas are becoming more widely accepted then there must be some reason why Ron Paul is still well below double digits in every poll.”

So remind me how well the Libertarian party candidate did last time around?

What an idiot.

Anyone who genuinely looks into what ron paul stands for and believes and has seen him speak on the floor of the house will know ron paul. Most of the people attacking ron paul, establishment hacks, people who probably never even heard the name ron paul until a couple months ago, hear he’s racist and jump on the bandwagon. Like David Bernstein, if David Bernstein had genuinely gave Ron Paul a chance he would of known Ron Paul being a racist is not an issue but a smear used by his detractors

Like I said, which you have further supported(no further support was necessary) you do not support Ron Paul. People that do not support a candidate are at best neutral and more likely work to scuttle them. It is beyond all doubt that you are working to scuttle Ron Paul Mark. Glad we have both settled that matter. BTW-if you cannot, on your own, see the value of supporting Ron Paul 100% it is not the concern of any RP supporter to try and make you drink.

Again, I do support your right to attempt your would be black bag job on RP, feel free to continue. I will continue to point out to all what you are attempting to do.

I think Alex Jones has a fan club here

If thats your reason for abandoning the most pro liberty presidential candidate in your life time I fell sorry for you

This race isn’t about Alex Jones, Alex Jones is just a radio talk show host from Austin Texas that Ron Paul appears on, just like the dozens of other radio show he appears on.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Segregation didn’t end in DC until 1953. If Congress meant to abolish segregation with the 14th Amendment, how did it take them 85 years to end it in DC?

Brown is a case where the Court said, “Fuck the law, we’re going to do what’s right.” And good on them.