ASSIGNMENT | Federal, State, and Local Authorities

OHIO
The U.S. Constitution established a national government based on the principle of federalism “which delineated federal, state, and local responsibilities. Within the U.S. Constitution federal and state governments are granted a number of -exclusive powers”. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to tax, establish post offices and roads, mint money, regulate commerce, declare war, raise armies, and to make all laws “necessary and proper”. Powers delegated to the individual states can be found within the Tenth 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” (U.S. Const. amend X).

Yet, since ratification, federal, state, and local governments have been embroiled in a series of authorial and policy making debates regarding the Constitutional interpretation of the Tenth Amendment.

This debate between federal power and state’s rights has many examples.

Directions: Provide two specific examples from your state that illustrates a contemporary debate between federal power and state’s rights.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Federal, State and Local Authorities             In the United States, the political discourse involves states’ rights where political powers are held by the state governments instead of the federal government based on the U.S. Constitution. The reference focus on the Congress’ enumerated powers, as well as the 10^th Amendment, and are listed in the U.S. Constitution comprising exclusive federal powers, including concurrent powers shared by various states, while being contrasted by the state rights known as reserved powers only possessed by the state (Dilger & Library of Congress, 2018). In the state of Ohio, for instance, the illustration of the contemporary debate regarding federal…