National Government Power

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At one point in our nation's history the system of the government didn't work out as planned. So, through compromise and great effort, the national government and the state government worked together to share power and to make the nation function properly. This system has power to the government which is between the national government and the states, this is called federal system or Federalism. This system allows each state deal with its needs in their own way. At the same time, it lets the states act together to deal with matters that affect all Americans. The national government had three types of powers and those powers were the enumerated power, reserved power, and the concurrent power. Each of these had their own power for the government in were used important things. The first power that the national government had was called the enumerated power. This power had many things that was useful towards the government. National government had coin money which was used for trade and interest foreign. The national government also, had maintained armed forces an created federal courts. An example for coin money is that they would collect or make and then they will sell their good like crops. Farmers liked selling their crops so they could of be selling that to make their own coin …show more content…

The reserved power isn't specifically in the Constitution, but the Tenth Amendment says that not all powers specifically granted to the Federal government "are reserved states". This power had the rights to establish schools. This means that if there were schools children will have the education to start learning new stuff. The reserved power also had pass marriage laws. Pass marriage laws is that it defined marriage for the federal purposes for a union of one men and women. The last thing is that they had regulate trade within states. People could have trade, but only in their part of the

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