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States' rights

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  1. 1
    Rights reserved to the 50 state governments of the United States that allow each one to set policy on some issues, rather than being subject to federal policy, especially in reference to their right to allow slavery before the Civil War. US, plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution wordnet
  3. 3
    a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states wordnet

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