This was the first case stating the "hands off" policy that allowed states to run their prisons without federal interference.

Many localities appeared to implement their own policies with very little federal interference.

"Republicans want what all parents want for their children's schools: more federal help but less federal interference," she said.

But advocates for development denounced the move as undue federal interference, and it was defeated.

Phillips considered the New Deal to be federal interference in the state and was an obstructionist.

There can be no suggestion of federal interference in the creative process.

That ruling, seen as unwanted federal interference, did not sit well with whites in Chattanooga.

Unlike some of his fellow Union officers who came from abolitionist families, he was opposed to federal interference with slavery.

Ms. Norton has also been a consistent advocate of states' rights and minimal federal interference.

Paul also states that he has an opposition to virtually all federal interference with the market process.