Furthermore in many cases federal laws allow for more stringent regulation by states, and of transfer of certain federally mandated responsibilities from federal to state control.

The right to a jury trial in civil cases does not extend to the states, except when a state court is enforcing a federally created right, of which the right to trial by jury is a substantial part.

This federally overruled a state law to the contrary and reinstated a practice that had been in use for more than two decades with other probate judges despite being at odds with the contested state law.

Douglas joined the majority opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Roe, which stated that a federally enforceable right to privacy, " whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

In 2011, the legislature of the state of Utah passed a bill to accept federally issued gold and silver coins as legal tender to pay taxes.

The National Guard of the United States is a reserve military force composed of National Guard militia members or units of each state and territory, plus the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia under federally recognized active or inactive armed force service for the United States.

The GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research () is a federally and state co-funded heavy ion research center in the Arheilgen suburb of Darmstadt, Germany.

The new Act also established federally issued bank charters, which took banking out of the hands of state governments.

Today the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of Connecticut are a federally recognized tribe, and the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation are a state recognized tribe in Connecticut.

Head Start is a federally and state funded preschool program for low income children.

It also contains the Irish Wilderness, the largest federally protected wilderness area in the state.

During the Reconstruction era, local leaders opposed those appointed by the federally appointed state government.

The ancient cities of Talisi and neighboring Wetumpka in Alabama have been home to the federally recognized Poarch Band of Creek Indians, descendants of the people who stayed in the state after removal.

In addition to these state and federally designated parks, there are numerous local recreation opportunities.

In the United States only the federal government, state governments, and federally recognized American Indian tribal nations are recognized by the United States Constitution, so local governments are subdivisions of states.

** Sylvania Mountains Wilderness, a federally designated wilderness area located 30 &# 160 ; miles ( 48 km ) east of Bishop in the state of California

Collectively, such federally administered areas that are not part of any state are called federal enclaves.

Child support in the United States varies state-by-state and tribe-by-tribe ; each individual state and federally recognized American Indian tribe is responsible for developing its own guidelines for determining child support.

In 1998, background checks for firearm purchases became mostly a federally run activity when NICS came online, although many states continue to mandate state run background checks before a gun dealer may transfer a firearm to a buyer.

In 1980, because of inflation, Congress passed the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act to exempt federally chartered savings banks, installment plan sellers and chartered loan companies from state usury limits.

This development was facilitated by the Morrill Act and the Hatch Act of 1887 which established in each state a land-grant university ( with a mission to teach and study agriculture ) and a federally funded system of agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension networks which place extension agents in each state.

The United States acknowledges many groups of native people of the United States as " federally recognized tribes ", giving them that status of " domestic dependent nations " under the jurisdiction of the federal government but with some autonomy from the state of California.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

The state funded it and awarded prizes to the winners.

Milken was largely involved with kick-starting investments in Nevada, which for many years was the fastest-growing state in the U. S. Milken funded the gaming industry, newspapers and homebuilders ; among the companies he financed were MGM Mirage, Mandalay Resorts, Harrah's Entertainment and Park Place.

In Scotland, while they may have different names, all Secondary schools are the same, except in that they may be funded by the state, or independently funded ( see next paragraph ).

It is unclear if " Academies ", which are a hybrid between state and independently funded / controlled schools and have been introduced to England in recent years, will ever be introduced to Scotland.

In the United Kingdom, most schools are publicly funded and known as state schools or maintained schools in which tuition is provided free.

It was originally funded by The Planetary Society and Paramount Pictures, and later by the state of California.

Because Westinghouse was angered by the decision, he funded Eighth Amendment-based appeals for inmates set to die in the electric chair, ultimately resulting in Edison providing the generators which powered early electrocutions and testifying successfully on behalf of the state that electrocution was a painless method of execution.

Some universities, e. g. Charles Darwin University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, offer TAFE courses ; these are funded by the local state and territory governments.

The Interstate Highway System is funded by the federal government but maintained by state governments.

Federal agencies are the primary financial sponsors of the Academies ' work ; additional studies are funded by state agencies, foundations, other private sponsors, and the National Academies endowment.

These tax reductions required a saving of £ 2, 855 million, and this would be funded by eradicating losses in the nationalised industries and denationalising the profit-making state concerns ; ending all housing subsidies except for those who could not afford their own housing ; ending all foreign aid ; ending all grants and subsidies in agriculture ; ending all assistance to development areas ; ending all investment grants ; and abolishing the National Economic Development Council and the Prices and Incomes Board.

It also supports mandatory public ( state ) education and publicly funded health care.

Public broadcasting stations are funded by a combination of private donations from members, foundations and corporations ( 60. 4 % of 2006 total revenues of all stations ), state and local taxes ( 22. 2 % of 2006 total revenues ), local and national underwriting, and federal funds, principally through the CPB ( 17. 3 % of 2006 total revenues ).

However, many scholars have argued that this definition is highly problematic as many NGOs are in fact state and corporate funded and managed projects with professional staff.

However in each such realm the monarch's family members may act on behalf of, are funded by, and represent the sovereign of that particular state, and not the United Kingdom.

Accordingly, since March 2004, the state has funded Māori Television, broadcast partly in Māori.

At the end of the project in 1943, South Carolina had twelve publicly funded county libraries, one regional library, and a funded state library agency.

It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the state and federal governments, and is managed by the states.

These institutions are funded 50 % from the federal budget and 50 % from the state budget.

Some are state funded to reflect pride in the armed forces whilst others are commercially sponsored.

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