Assertion: u.s.'s state | /r/CapableOf | try to protect the rights of their states
Facets:
value: against the south
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The historian James McPherson noted that Southerners were inconsistent on the states' rights issue, and that Northern states tried to protect the rights of their states against the South during the Gag Rule and fugitive slave law controversies.