Help my teacher is going to check it tomorrow

states

explanation:

as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”

a case involving the laws of a single state.

it should be a. song dynasty’s civil service examination system created an administrative bureaucracy manned by the landed aristocracy.