state rights

plural noun

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I have learned how slavery came into this country, how it grew; and I also know something about what is called State Rights.

For example, few men remember that when the Constitution was adopted, "State rights" was not mentioned in that instrument.

Being in the Constitution, the State rights provision is as valid as any other amendment.

We are correctly told that the ancient doctrine of State rights ended at Appomattox.

The extreme State-Rights party in the South resolved not to submit to it, but to prepare the people for forcible resistance.

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