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States' Rights

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Noun

1. states' rights

a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states

2. states' rights

the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

States' Rights

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plural noun (often capitals) (in the US)
1. 
the rights and powers generally conceded to the states, or all those powers claimed for the states under some interpretations of the Constitution
2. 
a doctrine advocating the severe curtailment of Federal powers by such an interpretation of the Constitution

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States' Rights

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[sometimes S- r-]
all the rights and powers which the Constitution neither grants to the federal government nor denies to the state governments

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

States' Rights

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pl.n.
1. All rights not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor denied by it to the states.
2. The political position advocating strict interpretation of the Constitution with regard to the limitation of federal powers and the extension of the autonomy of the individual state to the greatest possible degree.

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