The Constitution’s ratification occurred in a time when the country’s total population was around 3 million people. Divided by the 13 colonies, you can see that the term “states’ rights” referred to the representation of an average of 230,000 people, the same 2010 population of a random city in Texas (Lubbock).
It doesn’t make sense to say that the current states’ rights would be supported at all by the Founding Fathers when their view of necessary governmental checks and balances was something that we now call “local government”.
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