The amendments would also trample on state prerogatives for no good reason.

Governors, for example, worry that the Federal role, particularly in setting the school standards, intrudes on state prerogatives.

RTE takes the process further, and makes the enrollment of children in schools a state prerogative.

The debate will also continue over state prerogatives within the Federal system, a question on which the Court is also sharply divided.

The group is to examine a range of actions, including a constitutional amendment and a Federal "umbrella" law that would guarantee state prerogatives.

One would allow the states to veto any Federal law involving such matters as education, which have usually been viewed as state prerogatives.

Late Byzantine officials supposed to implement a regulatory policy used the state prerogatives placed into their hands to pursue their private businesses.

Mr. Jones said that Congress has little money to spend, so it is legislating by usurping state prerogatives.

The Department of Labor must act for them, and that is hardly more respectful of state prerogatives.

They have cheered the Supreme Court's defense of state prerogatives.