1 Tyler was a strong believer in states' rights. He had worked hard to win the nomination for Senator Clay.

2 It finds philosophical structure in federalism and states' rights, concepts that comforted southern Democrats of the John C. Calhoun variety.

3 "States' rights" and federalism were the banner under which local elites in the South could oppress African Americans, both before and after the Civil War.

4 First is a broad challenge on states' rights grounds, particularly with respect to health care.

5 Some Democrats who believed strongly in states' rights also opposed it.

6 Tyler soon joined the states' rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson.

7 There is no issue of States' rights or national rights.

8 Voting six to three, the court ruled that this ultimate threat violated states' rights.

9 He pledged that his administration would defend the principle of states' rights, which augured poorly for civil rights enforcement.

10 With governmental control of the food supply, railroads, and fuel, states' rights were virtually nonexistent in some areas.

11 Lepers might be social outcasts, but they were not federal criminals or otherwise without the protection of states' rights.

12 At the same time, he angrily defeated those emerging southern nationalists (led by his former ally, John C. Calhoun) who defied federal authority in the name of states' rights.

13 Though the 1789 Constitution designed the new nation's regime as a federal one, it failed to settle the conflict between the federal power and the states' rights.

14 A package of five bills was sent to Congress as a "Compromise" meant to keep everyone happy, supporting the new states' rights to decide on slavery but severely limiting slavery in other ways.

15 There would be those who would say, you know, automatically say the reason for the Civil War was over slavery. No, it was over states' rights.

16 Instead they used the designation":war between the states, " which seemed to justify the southern emphasis on states' rights and local autonomy.

17 S. history. More than a century later, people are debating the reasons for the war, slavery versus states' rights.

18 The group's Doug Honnold told the Idaho Statesman newspaper: "It's the endangered species that need to be protected, not the states' rights to kill wolves."

19 It arose out of disputes over the issues of slavery, trade and tariffs, and the doctrine of states' rights.

20 Later these men returned to the Democratic Party, committed to the preservation of states' rights, planter interests, and the institution of slavery.

21 Forcing states to accept the permits of the most permissive jurisdictions would be an assault on states' rights, says Mark Glaze of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a pressure group.

22 Soon after Tyler took office, Congress passed a bill to reestablish the Bank. Tyler vetoed it and also a second such bill, calling them unconstitutional and against states' rights.

23 Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come to see him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!

24 To this day there is an argument raging between the two areas over whether the south seceded to maintain slavery or to protect states' rights, and the idea of free trade.