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Southern Manifesto

( 1956 ) Commentary by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University

Glossary

checks and balances the ability of separate federal branches to limit each other's powers
dual system of government the division of sovereignty between the state and federal governments
rights reserved to the States rights held exclusively by the states under a system of federalism and guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution
separate but equal a phrase describing the system of segregated facilities in American society

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