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states rights

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
states' rights in U.S. history, doctrine based on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The term embraces both the doctrine of absolute state sovereignty that was espoused by John C. Calhoun and that of the so-called strict constructionist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, which reserves to the state governments all powers not specifically granted by that document to the federal government. A states'... Read more
States' Rights
The Oxford Companion to United States History States' Rights. Rooted in the classical republican ... of centralized power, the doctrine of states' rights is enshrined in several parts of the ... The most often cited guarantee of states' rights is the Tenth Amendment. To states ... Read more
State Sovereignty and States' Rights
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 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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