state rights

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This latter is really the doctrine of some of the slave states—the "state-rights" doctrine, so called.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery|Lysander Spooner
Forget your old State-Rights doctrine, or off goes your head.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital|John Beauchamp Jones
It is not unanimous about the Tariff, about State-Rights, about many other questions of policy.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V|James Russell Lowell
The chapter is also instructive in showing State-rights utterances of Webster made before and after the speech.
The Brothers' War|John Calvin Reed

His departure had the very important effect of bringing the question of State-rights acutely to the front.
History of Holland|George Edmundson