Issue licenses, regulate intrastate (within the state) businesses, conduct elections, establish local governments, ratify amendments to the Constitution, take measures for bublic health and safety, may exert powers the Constitution does not delegate to the national government
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Despite the supremacy clause granting primacy and extensive powers to the federal government, states reserve significant powers and authority. States can levy taxation within their borders, they can also grant various licensure (medical & law practice, driving, business).
Within the US, state governments mirror the same functions that the federal government is involved with. The difference is in scope. As per the US Constitution, all matters not delegated to the central government are left to the states to handle. With that said, state governments have an executive, legislative and judicial branch to manage their affairs.
The executive is one of the departments of government that is designed in law matters. The function of the executive can be a head of state, foreign minister, and head of government, justice minister or defense minister.
federal or confederal states
In the United States, most if not all US States have three branches. 1. Executive; 2. Legislative; and 3. Judicial. To a large extent these States have the same functions of the Federal government.
The constitution consists of seven ________ that explain the branches and also functions of the united states government?
Constitutional Government