concurrent powers
Overlapping governmental jurisdictions
Concurrent powers are governmental authorities that both federal and state governments can exercise simultaneously.
In the United States, these include the power to tax, build roads, establish courts, and enforce laws.
Both Congress and state legislatures have concurrent power to regulate commerce within their jurisdictions.
The term distinguishes these shared authorities from exclusive powers held by only one level of government.
- dual sovereigntyTwo authorities over one territory
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- federalismDivided governmental authority system
- federal systemGovernment with layered jurisdictions
law enforcement · environmental regulation · Tenth Amendment · separation of powers · checks and balances · division of powers · infrastructure development · education policy · healthcare administration · borrowing · layer cake · marble cake · judicial review · public safety · New Deal programs · legislative authority · spending · enumerated
- constitutional lawConstitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment
- ConstitutionBill of Rights, preamble, articles, U.S. Constitution, Article I
- constitutional governmentseparation of powers, checks and balances, branches of government, executive branch, legislative branch
- federalismstates' rights, federal law, federal district, enumerated powers, federal agency
- checks and balanceschecks and balances, separation of powers, impeachment, congressional oversight, executive privilege
- constitutionsbill of rights, constitutional amendment, constitutional reform, clause, clauses
concurrent powersreserved powers
Governmental abilities kept by states
enumerated powers · federal powers · state powers · state sovereignty · police powers