Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "State rights" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF STATE RIGHTS

State rights  [steɪt raɪts] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STATE RIGHTS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
State rights is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STATE RIGHTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

State rights

States' rights

In American political discourse, states' rights refers to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STATE RIGHTS


brights
braɪts
daylights
ˈdeɪˌlaɪts
Dolomites
ˈdɒləˌmaɪts
footlights
ˈfʊtˌlaɪts
heights
ˈhaɪts
highlights
ˈhaɪlaɪts
knights
naɪts
lights
laɪts
lowlights
ˈləʊlaɪts
nights
naɪts
rights
raɪts
sights
saɪts
tights
taɪts
whites
waɪts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STATE RIGHTS

State of the Union Address
state of war
State police
state prayers
State prison
State Registered Nurse
State Representative
state school
state secret
state sector
State Senator
state services
State Services Commission
state socialism
state socialist
state trooper
State university

WORDS THAT END LIKE STATE RIGHTS

animal rights
Arabian Nights
Bill of Rights
bragging rights
bright lights
by rights
Christmas lights
civil rights
hazard lights
hazard warning lights
human rights
northern lights
polar lights
proprietary rights
the bright lights
thoughts
Thousand and One Nights
to rights
traffic lights
voting rights
Wuthering Heights

Synonyms and antonyms of State rights in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «State rights» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF STATE RIGHTS

Find out the translation of State rights to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of State rights from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «State rights» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

国家权利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

los derechos del Estado
570 millions of speakers

English

State rights
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राज्य अधिकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حقوق الدولة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Государственные права
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

direitos do Estado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাজ্য অধিকার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Les droits de l´Etat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hak negara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zustand Rechte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

国家権
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주 권한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hak-hak negara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quyền nhà nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாநில உரிமைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राज्य अधिकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Devlet hakları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

i diritti dello Stato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prawa państwowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Державні права
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

drepturile de stat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δικαιώματα του Δημοσίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staat regte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

statliga rättigheter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

statlige rettigheter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of State rights

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STATE RIGHTS»

The term «State rights» is regularly used and occupies the 66.362 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
69
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «State rights» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of State rights
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «State rights».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STATE RIGHTS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «State rights» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «State rights» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about State rights

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STATE RIGHTS»

Discover the use of State rights in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to State rights and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Georgia and State Rights
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, 2010
2
Virginia and State Rights, 1750-1861: The Genesis and ...
The Genesis and Promotion of a Doctrine Charles Pinnegar. to Congress for action. “As to the initiative in a matter like this,” he reminded the House, “it necessarily devolved on the Executive.” Randolph's last Griswold encounter concerned the ...
Charles Pinnegar, 2009
3
State Rights: A Photograph from the Ruins of Ancient Greece
A Photograph from the Ruins of Ancient Greece Tayler Lewis. Disorganization, disintegration, was inherent in its very idea. It was a centrifugal force ever overcoming any central attraction, and ever working on to one result — anarchy, total and ...
Tayler Lewis, 1864
4
Remarks on State Rights
THE subject of State Rights, involving as it does the extent of power in the legislators and rulers of the separate states, as distinct from and independent of the general or federal government, is confessedly very important : and, though difficult to ...
Citizen of Massachusetts, 1824
5
National and State Rights
I have already stated that the erroneous proposition,, that the states, as such, have certain original, inherent rights, lies in ambush at the bottom of all the reasonings in favor of state rights ; and I will now add another proposition, equally ...
George McDuffie, 1831
6
The Union and State-rights Parties of Georgia: Speech of ...
Joseph W. Jackson, of Georgia, in the House of Representatives, March 16, 1852 , on the Union and State-rights Parties of Georgia Joseph W. Jackson. s»*RVJ»» C9UE6E LIBsUlT THE UNION AND STATE-RIGHTS PARTIES OF GEORGIA.
Joseph W. Jackson, 1852
7
The Law of the Sea
The rights and duties of the coastal State in the EEZ The coastal State's rights and duties are set out in broad terms in article 56 of the Law of the Sea Convention, and amplified in later articles. The coastal State's rights relate essentially to the ...
Robin Rolf Churchill, Alan Vaughan Lowe, 1988
8
State rights: a photograph from the ruins of ancient Greece
STATE RIGHTS. The saddest book in the world is Grote's History of Greece. Yet sad as it is, there is no one for us more instructive. We often hear our government spoken of as a great experiment. Nothing like it was ever known before. Wc have  ...
Lewis Tayler
9
An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War
One of the sources of this opposition was the doctrine of state rights, the political principle upon which the Confederacy was founded. Davis near the end of the war addressed this point when he wrote that the extreme advocates of state rights  ...
Charles Pierce Roland, 2004
10
State Constitutions and Criminal Justice
B ut the states remain free to erect a "ceiling" raising state rights above the federal floor. The floor-ceiling analogy is sound as long as the distinction between interpreting and enforcing state law is kept in mind. State courts may interpret state ...
Barry Latzer, 1991

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STATE RIGHTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term State rights is used in the context of the following news items.
1
NYT: State Rights Argument May Come to Obamacare's Aid
Liberal-leaning justices have invoked conservative reasoning on state rights to rationalize allowing the federal government to subsidize consumers in state-run ... «Newsmax, Mar 15»
2
Louisiana Gov. Jindal sues feds, says Common Core violates states
... which Jindal says violate states' sovereignty. “Common Core is the latest effort by big government disciples to strip away state rights and put Washington, D.C., ... «Los Angeles Times, Aug 14»
3
A Simple Constitutional Argument For Letting States Legalize …
... of the U.S. government through the Constitution "demands that individual and state rights be honored above all but the most important federal imperatives.". «Business Insider, Nov 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. State rights [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/state-rights>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z