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Noun: states' rights
  1. A doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states
     
  2. The rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution

Type of: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, right, school of thought

Encyclopedia: States' rights

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