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  2. Concurrent powers - Wikipedia

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    Concurrent powers can therefore be divided into two kinds: those not generally subject to federal pre-emption, such as the power to tax private citizens, and other concurrent powers. [2] In the United States, examples of the concurrent powers shared by both the federal and the state governments include the powers to tax, to spend, and to create ...

  3. Power sharing - Wikipedia

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    Power sharing is a practice in conflict resolution where multiple groups distribute political, military, or economic power among themselves according to agreed rules. [1] It can refer to any formal framework or informal pact that regulates the distribution of power between divided communities. [ 2 ]

  4. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    Concurrent powers are those that are given to both state and federal governments. There are also powers that are not lined out in the Constitution that are given to the federal government. These powers are then given to the states in a system called federalism. Congress is one of the branches of government so it has a lot of powers of its own ...

  5. List of countries by federal system - Wikipedia

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    Powers are shared between the federal government and the provinces. Relations between federation and provinces is defined in Part V (Articles 141–159) of the constitution. [8] Pakistan consists of four provinces and three territories, including the Islamabad Capital Territory. [6]

  6. Enumerated powers (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The enumerated powers (also called expressed powers, explicit powers or delegated powers) of the United States Congress are the powers granted to the federal government of the United States by the United States Constitution. Most of these powers are listed in Article I, Section 8.

  7. Divided government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Divided government is seen by different groups as a benefit or as an undesirable product of the model of governance used in the U.S. political system. Under said model, known as the separation of powers, the state is divided into different branches. Each branch has separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers ...

  8. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) [a] is the common government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, comprising 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district (national capital) of Washington, D.C ...

  9. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).