Chapter 4The Federal System

4-1National and State

Powers

Reserved Powers

The Constitution (10th Amendment) grants to the states all those powers“not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states.”

This is a “check” on the “elastic clause.”

Most are in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, numbered 1-18

Expressed Powers = Enumerated Powers

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“The Constitution … shall be the Supreme Law of the Land”

Article VI, Section 2

Supremacy Clause

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4-2Relations Among the

States

1) Full faith and credit – each state must recognize the laws and legal proceedings of another state.

2) Privileges and immunities – one state may not discriminate unreasonably against citizens of another state.

3) Extradition – fugitives must be returned to the state they have fled from.

4) Interstate compacts – states may enter into agreements with one another.

5) Lawsuits – states may sue one another.