One of the hottest topics in our current political climate is “States Rights.” Members of the American Continental Congress were appointed by their state's governors to guard their state's rights as much as they were to form a union while writing the “Articles Of Confederation.” Therefore, it is not surprising that the Declaration of Independence which they adopted stated very clearly “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to altar or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”