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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: The Century Co. Subjects: Federal government State' rights (American politics) Constitutional history State rights United States States' rights (American politics) Law / Constitutional Political Science / General Political Science / Constitutions Political Science / Government / National Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VIII FEDERAL AND STATE POWERS From the control that the Federal Government may constitutionally exercise over the form of the governments of the several States, we now turn to a consideration of the general principles in accordance with which the powers of government are divided between the federal and state governments. In the American State the totality of governmental powers is divided into the following classes: 1. The powers, the exclusive exercise of which is delegated to the General Government. 2. The powers -- commonly called concurrent -- that may be exercised by the General Government, but which, when not so exercised, may be exercised by the individual States. 3. The powers, the exercise of which is prohibited to the General Government. 4. The powers, the exclusive exercise of which is reserved to the several States. 5. The powers, the exercise of which is prohibited to the States. From the above it will be seen that the powers of the Federal Government are embraced within the firsttwo classes -- the distinction between the two classes being merely that the exercise of the powers of the first class is exclusively vested in the General Government, while those of the second may, in default of federal exercise, be made use of by the States. Some of the powers gra...

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