Tuesday, November 17, 2009

9-10 Amendments Assignment

1. List five policing powers that states have.

  • public welfare
  • health
  • safety
  • security
  • prosperity


2. List three powers states share with the federal government.


Three powers that police share with the federal government
  • public health
  • law
  • ethics

3. Copy the following situations onto your blog. Then write a sentence under each one explaining whether the following statements are a state’s responsibility or the responsibility of the federal government.

a. Issue a teaching license to someone who has applied and has met all the requirements

that is the states responsibility because Teaching is something people do across the u.s. and It should be the state’s responsibility.

b. Make a treaty with a foreign country

that would be states responsibility because a treaty is when to states agree to pretty much be peace full with eacth other.

c. Set health codes for restaurants

That would have to be the federal government because thats one of the things they have power over.

d. Issue a marriage license

federal government because that has something to do with the public.

e. Declare war

thats the state’s responsibility because thats wether or not that state will fight or not.

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