1. Chapter 10: States Powers

2. State’s Powers Each state has a State Constitution:
List the powers of each state
Each state has power only inside its own borders
Each state has the power to pass laws
Each state has the power to make sure people follow the law
Each state can set up courts
Each state can borrow money
Each state can tax people
Each state can make rules for doing business in the state
Each state has power to protect the health, safety, and well-being of people

3. State Power: Health To protect health, the state makes rules for:
Restaurants
Public swimming pools
Theaters
Sports arenas
Etc…

4. State Power: Health Health rules can be:
How clean a restaurant kitchen must be
Where you can and cannot smoke
How much air pollution you can make
How old you must be to drink alcohol
Who can sell drugs

5. State Power: Safety To protect safety, the state makes rules for:
Speed limits
Building safe houses
Guns
Laws to fight crime

6. State Power: Well-Being
To protect well-being, the state makes rules to:
Limit people’s rights
Set the age to drive
Set the age to get married
Say who must go to school
Say what must be taught in school
Give tests to doctors, lawyers, etc…
Set business hours for bars
Make laws about gambling

7. State Governments working with the Federal Government
States work with the Federal government for big, nationwide problems
Air pollution
Drugs
Education

8. Federal Aid
Money the federal government gives to states to help the states with problems:
Pay for education
Help pay for and build highways, railroad, and buses
Natural disaster (flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, etc…)