On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 17:26:51 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

"States rights" is little more than a loaded term that gives cover to
those who oppose gay marriage, racial desegregation, and the ability of
minorities and students to vote.

I never heard that they had repealed the 9th and 10th amendment.
I agree the 14th gave the government the ability to legislate RIGHTS
that might tend to trump a state law but going to federal prison for
possessing something beyond the reach of constitutional powers is not
the kind of right they intended to protect.

FYI when you do talk to lawyers about this they cite the 14th
amendment as the reason why the feds can have drug, gun laws, the 55
MPH speed limit and lots of other things they have no business in.
Traditionally if they could not cite the commerce clause, (crossing
state lines) the feds could not act unless it was treason or
counterfeiting, the only crimes defined in the constitution.

Other federal crimes cited federal interest, killing a federal
employee, robbing a federally insured bank etc.