Noun
(law) The states of the United States, collectively.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see several, states.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgEvery discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. Susan B. Anthony
I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred. Robert Toombs
The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy less parochial in range. It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division. Benjamin N. Cardozo
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. James Monroe
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. Robert W. Welch, Jr.