[Beetle01]

It was Dick Nixon's armed guardsmen who killed Americans at Kent State; no Americans were killed in Tuscaloosa. Domestic threats wouldn't include direct and open violations of the Constitution, especially when they discriminated against a whole group of people? Let's say the women's right to vote Amendment...two states refuse to honor it. Who or what stands as protector of those women's right to democracy? In my opinion, your view of state's rights swings quite a bit too far.

No the Federal govt. has ways to manipulate the state govt. It is called funding. Funding for roads and education for example. If those in Tusc. didn't want to let blacks attend their college, instead of sending in troops, which these days would probably get very ugly, just cut funding to the schools in Bama. Force the oppressors to allow the rights of those who are being oppressed without sending in armed soldiers.