One example of how frustration over the federal government's power has been vented occurred a year ago this week, when the Georgia Senate voted 43 to 1 on a resolution designed to re-affirm states rights. According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman, that resolution essentially argued states had the right to abridge Constitutional freedoms of religion, press and speech. (Oh, and Bookman says they also, in effect, voted for secession and the disbanding of the United States). We'll talk with Jay Bookman about what prompted such a resolution one year ago, and we'll talk with political science professor Harold Pohlman about the history and Constitutional context of states' rights cases, and how laws involving the rights of federal and state governments have been interpreted throughout our nation's history.
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