Division of powers

POWERS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT	CONCURRENT POWERS	POWERS RESERVED TO STATE GOVERNMENTS
· To regulate foreign trade and commerce between states · To borrow and coin money · To conduct foreign relations with other nations · To establish post offices and roads · To raise and support armed forces · To declare was and make peace · To govern territories and admit new states · To pass naturalization laws and regulate immigration · To make all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out its powers	· To collect taxes · To borrow money · To establish and maintain courts · To make and enforce laws · To provide for the health and welfare of the people	· To regulate trade within the state · To establish local governments · To conduct elections · To determine voter qualifications · To establish and support public schools · To incorporate business firms · To license professional workers · To ratify amendments · To keep all the “reserved powers” not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states
POWERS DENIED TO THENATONAL GOVERNMENT	POWERS DENIED TO BOTH NATIONAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS	POWERS DENIED TO STATE GOVERNEMNTS
· To tax exports · To suspend writ of habeas corpus · To change state boundaries without consent of states involved · To abridge the Bill of Rights	· To pass ex post facto laws · To pass bills of attainder · To deny due process of law · To grant titles of nobility	· To coin money · To enter into treaties · To tax agencies of the federal government · To tax imports or exports

The Federal government also has three elements – executive (the President), legislature (Congress) and judicial, and the three elements are checked and balanced by one another.

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