| 单词 | state rights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstate rights state rights n. chiefly U.S. = states' rights n.; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > rights of federal states state rights1787 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies federalism1787 state rights1787 colonizationism1831 hunkerism1845 Reconstructionism1881 Little Americanism1898 Point Four1949 fairness doctrine1952 new frontier1961 Great Society1964 eleventh commandment1966 Nixon Doctrine1969 1787 J. Wilson in Robert Yates's Minutes of Secret Deb. 21 June in Elliott's Deb. (1830) IV. 90 Let us try to designate the powers of each, and when no danger can be apprehended, nor can the general government be possessed of any ambitious views to encroach on the state rights. 1798 S. Smith in Ann. Congress 21 June (1851) 2022 The powers of our general Government are checked by State rights. 1846 S. M. Maury Statesmen Amer. 370 The struggle which ended in the triumph of the State rights party. 1890 C. L. Norton Polit. Americanisms 109 State Rights. The political creed which favours the retention of independent powers by individual States as opposed to ‘Centralization’. 1930 W. K. Hancock Australia vi. 121 In truth, Australian public opinion (even that section of it which is disposed to favour ‘State rights’) has only a fitful, ineffective interest in maintaining the Federal balance. 2000 H. V. Jaffa New Birth of Freedom (2004) iv. 251 The conflict [sc. the American Civil War] was between two different conceptions of state rights and two different conceptions of what constituted the nation. < as lemmas |
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