state rights
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plural noun
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Historical Examples of state rights
But the State-rights men and the south generally understood.
The Brothers' WarJohn Calvin Reed
Forget your old State-Rights doctrine, or off goes your head.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States CapitalJohn Beauchamp Jones
And his subsequent utterances are in harmony with the State-rights doctrine to which Calhoun seems to have converted him.
The Brothers' WarJohn Calvin Reed
But the State-rights men had a still greater strength than even this, if the question be conceded to be one of construction.
The Brothers' WarJohn Calvin Reed
The chapter is also instructive in showing State-rights utterances of Webster made before and after the speech.
The Brothers' WarJohn Calvin Reed