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Looks at the agenda of the US Supreme Court for the 1996-1997 term. The range and significance of the cases on the docket; Close observation of this term, due to light it will shed on the constitutional relationship between the states and the federal government; Cases including a states'-rights challenge to the Brady gun-control law, physician-assisted suicide, and free-speech issues.

Focuses on the efforts of the state of Utah to reclaim many of its rights as a state and thus decrease the role of the national government in the business of the state. Opposition to President Clinton's plans to make part of the state a national monument; The tension between states rights and the benefits that Utah gets from the federal government; Why many legislators in Utah feel that Governor Mike Leavitt is not doing enough to reclaim Utah's independence.

Looks at the impact of widespread suspicion and conspiracy theories against the Federal Government after the Oklahoma City bombing. Abandoning of the Conference of the States organized by the National Governors Association; Focus on the surge in the states-rights movement; Note on the prevalent conspiracy theories. INSET: Colorado's state rights resolution..

Views the idea of the Republicans for solution to the problems of the nation by giving more power to the states. Consideration of State Government as `the laboratories of Democracy'; Positive ratings of the Federal Government over the state government; Brief history of the states' rights of US; Announcement of President Bill Clinton to give rights to the states to reform their own welfare system amending the Federal rules.

Asserts the right of states to challenge acts of the American federal government. Problems with big and intrusive government; States' fight of their rights as cause of the United States' Civil War; Effects of the removal of states' rights to secession.

Reports on the campaign of the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) for the state of Nevada's rights against the federal government. Alternatives for the state to take its powers back; State's economic conditions; Federal government's broad regulatory stranglehold.

Reports on debate in the US Supreme Court over the principle of separate state sovereignty. Impact that the ruling against the background check provision of the Brady gun control law is having on the debate; Details from the majority opinion of Antonin Scalia and the minority opinion of John Paul Stevens; How President Clinton and supporters of the background check provision are reacting; Chief Justice William H. Rhenquist's battle against the court's aggrandizement of Federal power.

Opinion. Comments on the role reversal among Democrats and Republicans regarding the issue of states' rights. Republicans as defending states' rights while Democrats oppose them; The reversal as having opportunism at its root; Role of the issues of abortion, education, and welfare spending; Cultural reasons why the reversal can fluorish.

Opinion. Discussion about the calling for a home rule for the states established by the US constitution by the Southern League, which was founded in 1994 in Alabama. Ways of establishment of home rule in Southern State; Differences of opinion between the black and the white Southerners.

The article reports on the consideration being given by the National Commission on Social Security Reform on the proposed mandatory coverage of nonprofit organization employees in the U.S. Due to the constitutional questions involving states' rights, commission members are less eager to interfere with state and local retirement plans. A survey from the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund reveals that most employees in the public, private and two-year academic institutions receive Social Security coverage.