In reply to Mike.

You realize you're quoting someone on the topic of States Rights? Context always matters. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-22-02-0410

Tho’ the experiment has not yet had a long enough course to shew us from which quarter incroachments are most to be feared, yet it is easy to foresee from the nature of things that the incroachments of the state governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself (as in the late instance) while those of the general government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working it’s own cure, as all experience shews. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it
-- Thomas Jefferson