State Courts and Federalism

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less than 5.3 is titled State Courts and Federalism.

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So we've talked already now about the federal courts and the Supreme Court in the structure of the courts of the federal level. But in the US we have

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really

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three systems of government.

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We have the federal,

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we've got this state and you've got your local, your city, your county, um, level government.

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And that's what's known as federalism.

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And that concept,

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uh,

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propagates down to our courts as well. So you'll have state courts, and then you'll have federal courts.

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And even in some places you have local courts or county or city courts.

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In this video, we're going to talk about the role of state courts and federalism.

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Federalism is a system of government, which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.

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What's known as dual sovereignty

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to sovereignty

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is the concept that you can have two independent

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sovereign governments

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controlling the same territory.

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So in the case of

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living in Houston, I must I am subject to the sovereignty of the state of Texas, as well as to the sovereignty of the United States.

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However, Article four of the US Constitution

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establishes what's known as the Supremacist Clause, which says that

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any law made by the federal government supersedes and his supreme to a law of that state that you live in.

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There's also the concept of Article one, Section eight of the U. S. Constitution, which lays out the enumerated powers those powers that are

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delegated to the government to the federal government. And those were the powers to declare war two D levy taxes

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to

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coin money

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to

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to

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also consider and negotiate treaties.

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And then, of course, that you've got the 10th Amendment.

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The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution says that all the rights not expressly stated in the Constitution are reserved to the states, meaning that if it is, if the Constitution does not specifically allow a power to occur,

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then the state is given that power.

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So, for example, under the 10th Amendment,

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it's actually the states who set the drinking age,

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the age of which you could drive

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and other important laws that governed

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how we do things and how our country operates.