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States' rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
States' rights in U.S. politics and constitutional law refers to the rights and political powers that U.S. states possess in relation to the federal government, as guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment o...
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In Dec., 1832, Calhoun quit the vice presidency after being elected to the Senate, where he eloquently defended his states' rights principles in dramatic debates with Daniel Webster.
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states' rights also States' rights pl.n. All rights not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor denied by it to the states ... States' Rights advocates believe that considerable governmental authority should be located in the separate and collective states of the United States. The concept of...
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Spelling Check for states'-rights ... Check spelling for: ... The Fifty States...
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William and Mary Law Review; The Second Amendment and States' Rights: A Thought Experiment, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds & Don B. Kates ... Instead, we will undertake what physicists term a "thought experiment." We will take as a given that the Second Amendment does what states' rights advocates say it does,
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"My party is demonstrating that they are for states' rights unless they don't like what states are doing. ... This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." (New York Times, March 23, 2005)
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