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Here's a little thread about #StateRights and #StatesRights that has been puzzling me. #Twitterstorians I am anxious for your insights! 1/
Nearly every book that considers the problem of state sovereignty uses the phrase "States' Rights" to describe this constitutional idea. "States' Rights" seems to be the preferred usage over "State's Rights" and "State Rights" in University Press guides as well 2/
But anyone familiar with political language in the mid-nineteenth century knows that people at that time more commonly used STATE Rights. Folks who favored more centralized power OR who claimed power for the states--in both South and North--talked about State Rights 3/
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