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states' rights

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states' rights • pl. n. the rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government.


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Lott's gone, but GOP still grapples with states' rights
; ...Lott's gone, but GOP still grapples with states' rights E.J. DIONNE Date: 12-22-2002, Sunday...defense of segregation. The principle was states' rights. It's not surprising that Republicans...contemporary Republicans are as committed to states' rights doctrines as he is. This creates ... Read more
Statehood as the new personhood: the discovery of fundamental "states' rights".
; ...State Sovereignty: State Powers Versus States' Rights 1. Rights, Powers, and Institutions...Jurisprudential Anomaly of Fundamental States' Rights B. Sovereigns, Persons, and Constitutional...reality, or more likely because of it, states' rights has experienced a renaissance in our... Read more
When States' Rights Get in the Way
; ...painfully obvious again: The doctrine of states' rights, so often invoked as a principle, is...one decision after another supporting states' rights would shudder at the idea of the federal...included the three most reliable states' rights votes on the court, Justices Clarence... Read more
Analysis: States' rights as a political tool for both parties
; ...NPR) 11-30-2004 Analysis: States' rights as a political tool for both...In years past, the phrase `states' rights' was enough to send liberals...barricades. In the 19th century, states' rights was the banner of cessation... Read more
States' Rights' and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876
; States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio...repeatedly likes to remind us these days, states' rights is not some moldy-oldie concept to...of the formative first century of states' rights. Imperium in imperio is no longer... Read more
States' rights are pitifully overblown: ; W.Va., like S.C., is both too small and way too big
; ...of the Confederacy. The principle of "states' rights," of course, is sacred in Tupelo. Our...cluttered and altogether unhandsome. States' rights? Why should we clamor for states' rights as long as Bob Byrd delivers the boodle... Read more
The foreign affairs powers of the U.S. Executive in light of changing conceptions of states' rights
; ...Amendment controversy in the early 1950s. States' rights partisans in Congress, especially those...by a single vote in the Senate, but states' rights issues in the foreign arena are now...seemingly discovered the virtues of states' rights in connection with Natsios v. National... Read more
States' rights rolls back democracy. (Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; ...is neither. Throughout our history, states' rights have been invoked to roll back democracy. The first great evocation of states' rights in this tradition occurred in 1832...Calhoun of South Carolina, champion of states' rights, against President Andrew Jackson... Read more
Liberal pols using states rights dodge.(Editorial)
; ...Thomas M. Keane Jr. Forty years ago, states' rights were regarded as a transparent effort...constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. States' rights, it turns out, are important when they...discovered the deeply vital principle of states' rights. Marriage was never a federal ... Read more
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876.
; ...repeatedly likes to remind us these days, states' rights is not some moldy-oldie concept to...survey of the formative first century of states' rights. Imperium in imperio is no longer a...is somewhat less than monographic. States' Rights and the Union provides a concise, lively... Read more

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states' rights In the USA, the doctrine that the states have authority in matters not delegated to the federal government. The controversy between federal and state jurisdiction reached...This led to the Nullification Crisis (1832) and contributed to secession and the Civil War . It was also an issue during ... Read more
State Sovereignty and States' Rights
State Sovereignty and States' Rights doctrines emphasize ambiguities...revitalized by the Rehnquist Court. States' rights doctrine's main constitutional...see Commerce Power ). Two bold states' rights and sovereignty assertions, interposition... Read more
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states' rights A US political doctrine that upholds the rights of individual states against the power of the federal government...reserved to the states. The doctrine of states' rights lay behind the NULLIFICATION Crisis... Read more
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...Canada and Germany. The concept of states' rights is closely related to that of...War . In the civil rights era, states' rights were invoked by opponents of federal...powers of national governments. states' rights states' rights states' rights Read more

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