How to Use states' rights in a Sentence

states' rights

plural noun

• At the very least, the minimum age to work is a states' rights issue.
  — Evie Fordham, Fox News, 9 June 2021
• His fight was for states' rights, his loyalty not to slavery but to Virginia.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
• There is no issue of states' rights or national rights.
  — Toby Lyles, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• What does Paxton's lawsuit do in terms of setting a precedent that is contrary to states' rights?
  — Alison Medley, Chron, 11 Dec. 2020
• While some contend that the Civil War was fought over states' rights, scholars generally agree that slavery was the primary driver of the conflict.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• White Southerners argued that states' rights, rather than slavery, was the impetus for the men in the carving to take up arms against the federal government during the Civil War.
  — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 30 May 2021
• Thomas is a conservative and a strict constructionist who supports states' rights.
  — CNN, 2 Nov. 2017
• Luther Martin was a Founding Father who refused to sign the Constitution over states' rights objections.
  — Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• Both of these lawmaking conventions arose in the 19th century and sprang from sentiments not all deemed worthy today, including states' rights and aversion to public debt.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• The dissenting judge in the case, Eric Murphy, wrote that the ruling violated states' rights to determine their own education policies and practices.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2020
• Emmer, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, favors states' rights to make their own rules.
  — Jim Spencer, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Some have tried to argue that the Confederate flag is actually a symbol of states' rights, but this ignores its long association with white supremacy and racial violence.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• The decision was seen as a victory for states' rights advocates, who called Obama's establishing of the monuments gross federal overreach.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• By the end of the day, there was unanimous support among these ambitious Democrats in supporting the states' rights to legalize marijuana without federal interference - the stance of the Obama administration.
  — David Weigel, Houston Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• Influential Republicans who oppose this legal gambit are invoking GOP principles about protecting states' rights, saying states should not interfere with other states' elections.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
• Republican lawmakers are universally opposed to the voting overhaul, calling it a Democratic power grab and federal intrusion into states' rights to administer elections.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024