Civil Liberties:

Ron Paul believes every America should have at least the ultimate freedom of voting for their own state's policy. 


There always comes up the argument that Paul is against women's right because he wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade, or that he's pro discrimination because he want's citizens to have strong personal property rights. But this is a tool of distraction to keep you from seeing why we wants to do these things. Ron Paul believes the federal government does not have the authority to decide the civil policy for all of it's states. 


This means he believes the federal government should not overrule the state's laws, not matter what they are (as long as they don't violate the constitution). Some laws put into place by the federal government, for example, are drug prohibition laws, and of course the law of making abortions legal nation-wide. 


He sees both of these laws as illegal, because they overrule any legislature the state had put into on it's own. 


Why are state laws more important than federal laws, you may ask? It's simple. At a federal level, the law has to be vote on by congress, and then agreed upon by the president. At state level, the laws have to be vote upon by the citizens of the state (you and I). Therefore, a state can become a land of custom laws made by it's own citizens. This is not possible when federal government overrules these laws.


The Pros: Custom states. Every state could come up wither their own entire laws, from health care, to drug laws, to abortion laws, to gay marriage laws.


The Cons: Not every state is going to be the same, and not every state is going to recognizes the same laws of other states.


My take: This will let states compete with each other through their laws, and will allow each state to be custom according to the people who reside there. Much better for liberty.