States' rights indicates the political rights and powers granted to the states of United states by the constitution.
Explanation:
Under the states rights the federal government is not allowed to interfere with the powers of the states implied to them by the US constitution.
States cannot form alliances with foreign governments, war and export and import duties.
The three powers of state are Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. Checks and balances notes that the three powers are in a equal and balanced way.
The western empire had lost most of its political, religious, and economic power
Because they managed to lost the power to use their original language and replaced by another
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Before Polk, the United States and Mexico had boundaries along the Rio Grande River. Texas and Polk claimed that America's southern border ran down to the river south of the United States' positon back then. They had a war, but Mexico lost and U.S kept expanding.
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