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Federalism As A Core Concept Of Federalism

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The right implicitly allocated to the states to govern the physical property within their individual borders by the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution is traditionally viewed as a core concept of federalism. The Supreme Court has explained federalism as dual sovereignty in that the “powers of the General Government, and of the State, although both exist and are exercised within the same territorial limits, are yet separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres.” The Tenth Amendment states that the “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the …show more content…

A. State Property Rights and Remedies
In order to allow landowners to enjoy and exploit the interest in real estate they own, the common law has provided two causes of action to protect these rights. The first cause of action, trespass, has been identified as an action for “an invasion of the [landowner’s] interest in the exclusive possession of his land…[and] ‘is available only upon proof of an unauthorized direct or immediate intrusion of a physical, tangible object onto land over which the [landowner] has a right of exclusive possession’…[and] must be intentional.” In other words, trespass provides landowners security from those who wish to intentionally traverse, or even occupy, the landowner’s private property. Trespass allows landowners to exclude others from his real estate that do not have any interest in the real estate. This includes “[f]light by aircraft in the airspace above the land of another…if, but only if, (a) it enters into the immediate reaches of the air space next to the land, and (b) it interferes substantially with the other’s use and enjoyment of his land.”
The other common law action, nuisance, ensures landowners have the right to enjoy the full use of their property. Nuisance is classified by either public or private nuisance, and “has been used to denote both the conduct or condition and the resulting harm with the addition of the legal

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