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Washington Post - January 11, 2001
A Battle Cry From Interior Nominee
By John Mintz Washington Post Staff Writer
In a 1996 speech to a conservative group, Interior Secretary-designate Gale A. Norton likened her struggle to preserve states' rights to the cause of the Confederacy, saying, "We lost too much" when the South was defeated in the Civil War.
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In the situation of the Confederacy, "we certainly had bad facts in that case where we were defending state sovereignty by defending slavery," she said in the speech. "But we lost too much. We lost the idea that the states were to stand against the federal government gaining too much power over our lives."
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CB:Without federalism and the Supremacy Clause, the slave states would not have been able to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in non-slave states.