The governors, here for their annual conference, countered that states had already begun approving new lines more quickly and would resist any federal encroachment.

MacDonald was critical of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and fought against federal encroachments on Tribal sovereignty.

He also defends his decision not to accept stimulus money in order to prevent the federal encroachment from the strings attached.

He eventually changed his position on segregation, though he remained a staunch opponent of actual or perceived federal encroachments upon the individual states.

The Sentinels of the Republic was a national organization that opposed what it saw as federal encroachment on the rights of the States and of the individual.

Opposition Leader Maurice Duplessis, whose criticism of the federal encroachments to the constitutional autonomy of the provinces capitalized on the population's mistrust of the federal government, had a field day.

The commission's stated objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment."

Jackson was one of the founders of the Sentinels of the Republic, an organization that opposed what it saw as the federal encroachment on the rights of the States and of the individual.

Ritchie worked hard for the ticket, and at home achieved reforms in mental health, shellfish conservation, and law enforcement while continuing to fight federal encroachments on state prerogatives.

Lopez raised serious questions as to how far the Court might be willing to go in implementing judicial safeguards against federal encroachments on state sovereignty.