Which statement best explains why George Wallace claims in his inaugural address that Alabama has the right to continue policies of racial segregation?

Wallace bases Alabama’s right to maintain segregation on the idea that states have authority to make their own laws. That is a states’ rights argument, associated with the founding principles and structure of the United States. Choice C best describes this claim; the argument is not mainly about the absence of a king or the threat of communism.

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