So many states feared the expanded powers of the new national government that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution's ratification. The most popular of these proposed amendments ...

Instead, as written in the US Constitution, power is shared between the national government (often referred to as the federal government) and each of the 50 US state governments. The United States ...

British Columbia‘s government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the “human-caused disaster” coming in like a freight train from the ...