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What are reserved powers?

What are reserved powers? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) Powers reserved for the states under the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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It mixes in almost entirely devolved issues such as health and transport, with reserved powers such as immigration, taxes and defence.
Wales will move to a reserved powers model once the provisions contained within the Wales Act 2017 are put into effect.
In the case of Scotland the extent of powers devolved is usually demonstrated by citing the shorter list of reserved powers, that is, those retained by Westminster.
If Congress used a more limited range of means, reserved powers would correspondingly expand.
As history demonstrates, Darby signaled the Court's abandonment of a four decades long effort to protect the states' reserved powers from congressional intrusion.
The discussions with the administering Power on the new constitution had sought to end many of the reserved powers of the Governor.

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