Reserved powers
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Reserved powers can refer to several powers of a central authority:
- Reserved matters (Westminster), those subjects still dealt with by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and not devolved to the Scottish Parliament
- Reserved powers, under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution powers that the United States Constitution does not give to the federal government, or forbid to the states, are reserved to the people or the states.
- reserved powers, powers that the British Governor of Bermuda has over External Affairs, Internal Security and the Police. See Politics of Bermuda.
- reserved powers, also called Reserved State powers, an historical doctrine used in the interpretation of the Constitution of Australia, they adopted a restrictive approach to the interpretation of the specific powers of the Federal Parliament in order to preserve the residual powers of the States
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