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In the United States, state law refers to the law of each separate U.S. state. The fifty states are separate sovereigns, [1] with their own state constitutions, state governments, and state courts.
The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, [1] of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties.
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The U.S. Constitution forms the basis for federal law; it establishes government power and responsibility, as well as preservation of the basic rights of every citizen. State law is the law of each separate U.S. state and is applicable in that specific state.
The LII collection of state legal materials gathers, state by state, Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions.
A state is a political division of a body of people that occupies a territory defined by frontiers. The state is sovereign in its territory (also referred to as jurisdiction ) and has the authority to enforce a system of rules over the people living inside it.
The constitutional law of the United States is the body of law governing the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution. The subject concerns the scope of power of the United States federal government compared to the individual states and the fundamental rights of individuals.
