DSSEP Home Page Transparency: Functions of Government
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  • Control trade between states
  • Control trade between the United States and other countries
  • Create a postal system
  • Coin money
  • Establish standards of weights and measures
  • Promote national security (e.g. wage war, maintain an army)
  • Establish public schools
  • *Law enforcement
  • Health and hospitals
  • *Streets and Roads
  • *Parks
  • *Recreation
  • Create motor vehicle laws
  • Control marriage and divorce practices
  • Control trade within a state
  • Create local governments
  • *Public safety
  • Zoning
  • *Land use planning
  • *Police protection
  • Fire protection
  • Ambulance
  • Water supply
  • Sewer management
  • Waste collection
  • Regulate parking
  • Manage housing
  • Street cleaning

* indicates a considerable degree of overlap in the functions between two or more levels of government.

 

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