A national government governs a whole country. Local government is just responsible for a part of a country, like a town council or a regional council. They do not have as much power as the government and only deal with issues within their particular regions.
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Reserved powers are assigned to either the federal or local government, but not to both. Concurrent powers are assigned to both the federal and local government, and can be carried out simultaneously or as needed.
National government deals with the entire nation; for example, what is the legal voting or drinking age. State government does the same thing, but on the state level; for example, at what age can a teenager receive a driver's permit. State laws cannot contradict national laws; for example, the state could not say that the legal drinking age was 15, because the national law has set it at 21.
The 3 levels of the U.S. government are: -State Government -Local Government -National Government
State, then the Local government.
The differences are that a local community is linked to government like the council and the local authorities and has the historical landmarks that go back to 100s of yeaares and has a big part of culture with festivals and the food they eat. In a national community it is spread across the whole country so iyt has diffrent things in it suce as race fashion football rugby accent