state powers
Provincial governmental rights
State powers are the governmental authorities reserved to individual states rather than the federal government.
In the United States, state powers derive from the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to states all powers not delegated to the federal government: Education policy falls under state powers.
The balance between state powers and federal authority remains a persistent source of political and legal tension.
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- federalismDivided governmental authority system
- governorState's chief executive
- public schoolsGovernment-funded educational institutions
- appellate courtsTribunals reviewing lower rulings
death penalty · ordinances · self-governance · executive orders · national guard · decentralization · judicial review · property taxes · Medicaid programs · road maintenance · zoning board · liquor laws · driver's license · voter registration · gun permits · mandates · bureaucracy · block grants
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- ConstitutionBill of Rights, preamble, articles, U.S. Constitution, Article I
- Early RepublicGeorge Washington, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Constitutional Convention
- state lawconstitutional law, statutes, legislative acts, acts, bills
- constitutional lawConstitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment
- constitutional governmentchecks and balances, branches of government, executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch
state powersfederal powers
Central government's legal authority
federal jurisdiction · federal authority · tribal sovereignty · enumerated powers · local authority
state powersindividual rights
Freedoms held by persons
personal liberty · civil liberties · corporate power · market forces
state, states, stated, stating, statement, statements, stately, statesman, statesmen