states rights

Tyler was a strong believer in states' rights. He had worked hard to win the nomination for Senator Clay.

There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

It arose out of disputes over the issues of slavery, trade and tariffs, and the doctrine of states' rights.

More than a century later, people are debating the reasons for the war, slavery versus states' rights.

Pleading the tenth (states' rights) amendment, he argues that New York's stand on gay marriage is its own business.

Nineteen states have some form of civil confinement, and the Supreme Court has upheld states' rights in this matter.

First is a broad challenge on states' rights grounds, particularly with respect to health care.

Some Democrats who believed strongly in states' rights also opposed it.

There is no issue of States' rights or national rights.

All of them were concerned with states' rights.

I don't want to provoke a new war of secession but surely this is a matter of states' rights.

Questions involving vital national issues seemed to be at stake: the problem of nationalism versus states' rights and sectionalism;

During the civil-rights era, segregationists often couched their position as a defence of "states' rights" ;