Difference between revisions of "Dual sovereignty"

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-Dual sovereignty is the allocation of power between the federal government and the states under the [[U.S. Constitution]], with overlapping authority.
-The states "surrendered many of their powers to the new Federal Government," but  retained "'a residuary and inviolable sovereignty.'"  ''Printz v. United States'', 521 U.S. 898, 918-19 (quoting [[The Federalist]] No. 39, at 245 ([[James Madison]])).  This dual sovereignty is "reflected throughout the Constitution's text."  ''Id.'' at 919.  The continued existence of state sovereignty is "implicit . . . in the Constitution's conferral upon Congress of not all governmental powers, but only discrete, enumerated ones."  ''Id.''
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