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states' rights

(Encyclopedia)states' rights, in U.S. history, doctrine based on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to ...

victims' rights

(Encyclopedia)victims' rights, rights of victims in the prosecution of the crimes commited against them. Nearly all U.S. states have enacted some victims rights legislation; federal legislation also has been passed...

water rights

(Encyclopedia)water rights, in law, the qualified privilege of a landowner to use the water adjacent to or flowing through his property. The privilege, also known as riparian rights, may be modified or even denied ...

gay-rights movement

(Encyclopedia)gay-rights movement, organized efforts to end the criminalization of homosexuality and protect the civil rights of homosexuals. While there was some organized activity on behalf of the rights of homos...

human chorionic gonadotropin

(Encyclopedia)human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG): see gonadotropic hormone. ...

human-factors engineering

(Encyclopedia)human-factors engineering: see ergonomics. ...

Human Genome Project

(Encyclopedia)Human Genome Project, international scientific effort to map all of the genes on the 23 pairs of human chromosomes and, to sequence the 3.1 billion DNA base pairs that make up the chromosomes (see nuc...

human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

(Encyclopedia)human granulocytic ehrlichiosis: see ehrlichiosis. ...

human growth hormone

(Encyclopedia)human growth hormone (HGH): see growth hormone. ...

human immunodeficiency virus

(Encyclopedia)human immunodeficiency virus: see HIV. ...