Provinces of Jonathia

In Jonathia, a province is a political entity. There are currently 19 of them, and they are bound together in a federation. Each has a government and can make laws over a particular area that the province covers. All provinces have a shared sovereignty with the Jonathian federal government. People who were born or naturalised in provinces are citizens of both Jonathia and the province they are in. People can move between provinces without asking or saying so, unless a court has said they can't. Overseas territories have similar rights to provinces but are not provinces outright.
Provinces divide their territory into boroughs, or something similar with different name, which are not sovereign. Most provinces give their counties some government authority; a few provinces give them none. Province governments get their power from the people of that province. Provinces have a number of provincial rights under the constitution.
Historically, the tasks of public education, public health, and local transportation and infrastructure, in addition to local and provincial elections, have generally been considered primarily province responsibilities, although all of these now have significant federal funding and regulation as well. Over time, the Constitution has been amended, and the interpretation and application of its provisions have changed. There is a continuing debate over provinces' rights, which concerns the extent and nature of the provinces' powers and sovereignty in relation to the federal government and the rights of individuals.
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The 19 provinces, in alphabetical order, along with each province's flag:
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==Background==
Jonathia was formed by twelve states on November 30th, 1920. The original twelve immediately became provinces upon the Declaration of Independence. Prior to these events, each province was its own country, with its own government, laws, and economy. On November 14th, 2020, seven more provinces, those in the Northwest, were admitted to Jonathia.
== Governments ==
Under constitutional law, the 19 individual provinces and Jonathia as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. The provinces are not administrative divisions of the country; the Constitution reserves to the provinces or to the people all powers of government not delegated to the federal government.
Consequently, each of the 19 provinces reserves the right to organize its individual government in any way (within the broad parameters set by the Jonathian constitution) deemed appropriate by its people, and to exercise all powers of government not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution. A province, unlike the federal government, has un-enumerated police power, that is, the right to generally make all necessary laws for the welfare of its people. As a result, while the governments of the various provinces share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance. No two province governments are identical.
== See also ==
* Jonathian Overseas Territories
* ISO 3166-2:JN
* List of Jonathian province topics
* Local government in Jonathia
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