you are the ones who are suppost to be answering the questions
The issue of states' rights has always been a controversial one.
Representative Democracy
Yes. It is a very debated issue, but unfortunatly it has. It is very rare, and only a few have been executed underage.
Yes, the constitution states that the federal government is the primary government with states being second. Since 1789 there has always been the issue of state rights vs federal laws.
The Eleventh Amendment deals with each state's sovereign immunity. This has been widely debated as to whether or not it strengthens equality.
declaration of independence
The declaration of independence
supremacy of Federal authority over the states
In some countries and US States, it has. The issue has not been resolved on the federal level in the United States.
The whole argument was that slave states had the right to have slaves and the federal government didn't have the right to tell them they couldn't. This issue still hasn't been resolved. Only the subject has changed.
make rights contained in the bill of rights applicable to the states.
Primarily to keep the Union together and not let the States split. The Union (or the North) beleived that the Southern States did not have the right to leave the Union. That point of law has been debated for a long time.