States' rights is a political
philosophy that emphasizes the rights of individual states to fight what proponents
believe to be the encroaching power of the United States government. Although the
discourse around states' rights dates from the American Revolution (1775–1783) and
the writings of Thomas
Jefferson, it became critically important first during the Nullification
Crisis (1828–1832), when South Carolina attempted to overrule a federally imposed
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