affairs which are exercised by central governments.

Each State government has--

1. A Constitution.

2. A Legislature of two Houses.

3. An executive, composed of a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor (in
almost all cases), Secretary of State, Auditor, and a few other
officers.

4. A system of local government in counties, towns, cities, etc.

5. A body of State laws.

6. A judicial system of courts, from which no appeal can be had to
United States courts, except upon Federal questions.

7. A system of local taxation.

Each State government has all the rights usually pertaining to a
sovereign State, except--Those powers which the Federal
Constitution expressly forbids to the States.

3. Those powers which have in the Constitution been exclusively
given to the United States.

All States have public debts, which they may, and sometimes do,
repudiate. They can be sued only by other States. The Eleventh Amendment