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  2. Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. [1] It expresses the principle of federalism, whereby the federal government and the individual states share power, by mutual agreement, with the federal government having the supremacy.

  3. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    Police power is defined in each jurisdiction by the legislative body, which determines the public purposes that need to be served by legislation. [2] Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , the powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or to the people.

  4. Enumerated powers (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Lopez [7] in 1995 held unconstitutional the Gun Free School Zone Act because it exceeded the power of Congress to "regulate commerce...among the several states". Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote, "We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers." For the first time in sixty years the Court ...

  5. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    One of these powers is called the express powers. These powers are expressly given, in the Constitution, to each branch of government. Another power is the implied powers. These powers are those that are necessary to perform expressed powers. There are also inherent and concurrent powers. Inherent powers are those that are not found in the ...

  6. Constitutional law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution assigns the powers of the federal government to the legislative , executive , and judicial (Article III) branches, and the Tenth Amendment provides that those powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved by the States or the people. [26]

  7. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment reinforces the principles of separation of powers and federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states or the people. The amendment provides no new powers or rights to the states, but rather preserves their authority in all ...

  8. Federal and state governments are frequently at odds as they ...

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    Opinion: Constitution has been effective since 1789. It has been honored to represent the longest serving written, single-text constitution globally.

  9. Federalist No. 45 - Wikipedia

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    The 10th Amendment, "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people", has preserved the powers of the federal and state governments until present day since 1791. [3]