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☆ states' rights

all the rights and powers which the Constitution neither grants to the federal government nor denies to the state governments

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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