state rights

How to use state rights in a sentence

• I have learned how slavery came into this country, how it grew; and I also know something about what is called state rights.

  The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. Dunn

• For example, few men remember that when the Constitution was adopted, "state rights" was not mentioned in that instrument.

  Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress | Various

• Being in the Constitution, the state rights provision is as valid as any other amendment.

  Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress | Various

• We are correctly told that the ancient doctrine of state rights ended at Appomattox.

  Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress | Various

• The extreme State-Rights party in the South resolved not to submit to it, but to prepare the people for forcible resistance.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 | Various