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There's nothing explicitly granted, the 18th Amendment of the Constitution only implies that these powers should exist. Alexander Hamilton, a founding father, wrote in the Federalist Papers #32 "(It's) Important for states to maintain sovereignty though concurrent powers could help achieve this."
The national government could change the scope of the states' powers if they chose to do so.
Reserved powers are a political power reserved by a constitution to the exclusive jurisdiction of a specified political authority, such as a state government. The purpose of this was to allay fears that the new national government might seek to exercise powers not granted and that the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers.
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- The Tenth Amendment provides that "the powers not delegated to the U.S. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states respectively, or to the people." [USCU Const. Amend. 10]
- In the rejected state's rights doctrine Dual Federalism, it stated the national and state governments were "separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other." [Tarble's Case (1872)]
Both the Federal and State governments can make rules and regulations on certain things regarding and including;
- Regulating elections
- Taxes
- Borrowing Money
- Establishing Court
- Bankruptcy laws
Concurrent powers are legal/political powers shared by both state and federal governments simultaneously. The purpose of these powers are to keep people safe, support economies, and punish wrongdoers. These are all needs shared by state and federal governments.
- Marriage laws are a reserved power, a power of the state, because each state can make or alter their own. For example, same sex marriage is illegal in many states, but is now legal in a few because the state voted to do so.
- Issue licenses; drivers, hunting, marriage. A state decides the requirements one must meet in order to obtain a license.
They can be changed because the government has inherit rights limited to the states' right.
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