states' rights vs philosophy

states' rights and philosophy both are nouns.

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

As nouns, philosophy is a hypernym of states' rights; that is, philosophy 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
philosophy: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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

states' rights (noun)	philosophy (noun)
the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution	the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
	any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation