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- noun Plural form of
righter .
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Examples
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Last January a party of Revolutionists laid plans to overthrow the Diaz Government, but one fellow got into a controversy with a Diaz party while riding on the Pasio, and so they came to blows, the news got abroad and armies paraded through the streets of Mexico until the poor little body of "righters" were overawed by the demonstration.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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Even the wingnuts think they're crazy -- Ben Smith reports that the folks who think President Obama isn't a U.S. citizen is making mainstream conservatives and a few far-righters uncomfortable with their lunacy.
Short Takes 2009
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In Michigan, state's righters are using a financial crisis to enact a "New Emergency Manager Law" -- appointing a "czar" that strips citizens of their right to elect their leadership.
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Questions About President Obama's Birth Certificate Stir Up Racial Fears Rev. Jesse Jackson 2011
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These new states' righters are attempting to declare the movements for social justice, women's rights, workers rights, and civil rights illegitimate, unnecessary and a burden.
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Questions About President Obama's Birth Certificate Stir Up Racial Fears Rev. Jesse Jackson 2011
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Leftists baching the righters as a whole and righters bashing the leftists as a whole.
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In Michigan, state's righters are using a financial crisis to enact a "New Emergency Manager Law" -- appointing a "czar" that strips citizens of their right to elect their leadership.
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Questions About President Obama's Birth Certificate Stir Up Racial Fears Rev. Jesse Jackson 2011
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These new states' righters are attempting to declare the movements for social justice, women's rights, workers rights, and civil rights illegitimate, unnecessary and a burden.
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Questions About President Obama's Birth Certificate Stir Up Racial Fears Rev. Jesse Jackson 2011
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As many of the 2nd Amendment righters are opposed to Federal intrusion they should welcome the State or Municipal restrictions on firearms possession and use.
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This reasoning poses a real dilemma for states righters.
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These amendments, resisted then and now by segregationists and states 'righters, became the basis for the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the civil rights movement, which also were part of the history of my generation and the greatest generation.
Saul Friedman: A Retrospective On the Tea Baggers' Fourth of July 2010
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