Fundamentals of American Government book. A study of the machinery and the working of the American government from national to state to local administrations.

Fundamentals of American Government book.

Fundamentals of American Government : National, State and Local. by Cullen Bryant Gosnell.

Fundamentals of American Government. national, State, and local. Published 1971 by Greenwood Press in Westport, Conn.

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James Wilford Garner. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m THE ST. .TE GOVERNMENTS Place of the States in Our Federal System. Proceeding upward from the county, township, and city, we come to the state, the authority to which the local governments described in the preceding chapters are all subject.

State and local government. State and local government. Constitution establishes a federal system, the state governments enjoy extensive authority. The Constitution outlines the specific powers granted to the national government and reserves the remainder to the states. In other areas, such as the regulation of commerce within a state, the establishment of local governments, and action on public health, safety, and morals, the state governments have considerable discretion.

The federal government of the United States (. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic in North America, composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories and several island possessions. The federal government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive and judicial, whose powers are vested by the . Constitution in the Congress, the president and the federal courts, respectively

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For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources. MLA citation style: Garner, James Wilford, and Walter Bert Davidson. Government in the United States, national, state, and local Contributor: Smith, Caleb (Caleb Blood).

The government of the US, the national government, is sometimes called the federal government, while .

The government of the US, the national government, is sometimes called the federal government, while the state governments are just called the state governments. Another form of New Federalism is devolution, which is the process of giving state and local governments the power to enforce regulations, devolving power from the national to the state level. Finally, some courts have picked up the cause of New Federalism through cases based on the 10th Amendment, which states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.