42.Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
42.宪法规定了各个州一些权力。它们的一项权力是?
Answer: Provide schooling and education; Provide protection (police); Provide safety (fire departments); Give a driver's license; Approve zoning and land use
答案:提供培训和教育;提供保护(警察);提供安全(消防部门);发放驾照;批准分区和土地使用
Explanation: Sometimes people who come to the United States from other countries are surprised by the differences among individual states.
解释:有时,从别国来的人会对美国各州之间的差异感到吃惊。
Things that are legal (or allowed by law) in one state may not be legal in another!
在一个州合法(或法律允许)的事情,在另一个州不一定合法!
Many of the things that are determined (or decided) at a national level in other countries are determined at the state level in the United States.
在其他国家,许多由国家决定的事情,而在美国却由州决定。
Let's take a look at some of the powers that states have.
让我们来看一看各州拥有的一些权力吧。
First, states have the power to provide schooling and education.
首先,各个州拥有提供培训和教育的权力。
The United States does not have a national educational system.
美国没有国家教育系统。
Each state can establish (or create) its own requirements.
每个州都可以确立(或建立)自己的要求。
This means that a student in a school in one state may study different things from a student in another state even though those two students are the same age and in the same grade.
这就意味着同岁同级的两个学生在不同州的学校里学的东西可能是不一样的。
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