The country is divided into states and the Constitution allows states many powers. Each state then has to run itself and each state has the power to write its own state constitution. So basically if a state has a constitution, then the state has it's own self set of rules or powers.
A law that takes a previously legal act and makes it illegal
Hammurabi is remembered for the laws he justified, called the Code of Hammurabi. One of these laws is a well known law called an Eye for an Eye.
For instance, if you cut someone's arm, they got to cut your arm.
