The general issue of the relative distribution of power between states and the central government has.
That's not what “State’s rights” historically refers to. As I explained, in detail.
Doesn't say anything about state's rights. But it does suggest that any powers not already reserved by the Federal government belong as much to the people (i.e., citizens) as they do to the states.
Yes, have you?
> State's rights are literally enshrined in the Constitution.
Find the word “right” or “rights” in the 10th Amendment.
“Rights” are nowhere associated with governments (state or federal) except in being protected against them in the Constitution (either base, bill of rights, or later Amendments); in the Constitutional model, people have both rights and powers, the latter of which they endow selectively to various governments.
“States rights” is a slogan created much later than the BoR by the pro-slavery faction that continues to be an anti-civil-rights slogan.
No, it's not.
“States rights” didn't really enter the political lexicon until it was injected there by the proponents of permanent institutionalization and expansion of slavery, who eventually revolted over it, lost, and whose ideological successors keep raising as a motto for their (usually unsuccessful, beyond the short term) attempts to resist progress on equal civil rights.
It is not “how America claims to govern itself”, it's how reactionary dissidents against the way America governs itself complain that they would prefer America to govern itself.
In the way America claims to govern itself, people have rights and governments, including those of states, have powers.
You probably mean “federalism” or “dual sovereignty” or something like that.