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Mayors gotta 'mayor.' Up the ladder (especially state government representatives) have a duty to ensure that mayors have the tools they need to protect public health, safety, and welfare. You know--the police powers.
"The division of police power in the United States is delineated in the Tenth Amendment, which states that “[t]he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” That is, in the United States, the federal government does not hold a general police power but may only act where the Constitution enumerates a power. It is the states, then, who hold the general police power. This is a central tenet to the system of federalism, which the U.S. Constitution embodies."
