For Dictatorship, the second answer is incomplete, a dictator may obtain power not only through elections but by a military or institutional coup d'état, a civil war or a military intervention by a foreign power.
In a republic, power is held by those citizens that are able and government is a public matter (res publica in latin) to vote and the power comes from their vote during elections.
I assume by "feds" you mean the federal government. They enforce national laws. While the states can make their own laws they must do so by abiding by federal law. For example, a state cannot make murder legal.
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The homestead act
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The homestead act. people would go out to the west and farm the land for five years. Then they would gain ownership of it.
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Because the U.S. Constitution originally stipulated that the Federal Government would start on March 4th each year. FDR's first inauguration in 1933 was the last inauguration held in March. The inauguration date was changed with the passage of the 20th Amendment, which moved the date up to January 20th.
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