states' rights vs doctrine

states' rights and doctrine both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
states' rights	Yes	No	No	No
doctrine	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, doctrine is a hypernym of states' rights; that is, doctrine is a word with a broader meaning than states' rights:

states' rights: a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states
doctrine: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Other hypernyms of states' rights include ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought.

states' rights (noun)	doctrine (noun)
the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states