NOUN
- a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states
- the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution
How To Use states' rights In A Sentence
- the thorny question of states' rights
- You need to look at the slow erosion of states' rights, and strict vs. loose constructionism of the Constitution.
- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come to see him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!
- He pledged that his administration would defend the principle of states' rights, which augured poorly for civil rights enforcement.
- There have been some signs of dissent from Barnaby Joyce and Queensland Liberal Senator David Johnston about the states' rights implications of the plans.
- The state had been erected upon lessons learned through centuries trying to maintain peace within an insular acephalous tribal society with a penchant for infighting and was most functional when it resembled a "loose" confederation in which legislative and judicial powers were pushed down to the local level - a concept analogous to America's states' rights. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
- Instead they used the designation":war between the states, " which seemed to justify the southern emphasis on states' rights and local autonomy.
- Although not unsympathetic to the idea of states' rights, he believed that the South needed outside help in order to improve.
- The campaigns of President Adams, aFederalist, and Democrat-Republican Jefferson, the sitting Vice President and astates' rights advocate, introduced vitriol to presidential politics.
- Still ahead here, is it a question of states' rights, or is it a violation of civil rights?
