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Did You Know? *National laws that form the basis of the federal system include the laws admitting new states into the union. Since Tennessee, 16th state, Congress has used the phrase that the new state is admitted on an "equal footing" as the other states. *Only 24 of the world's 193 countries have federal political systems. However, their citizens make up 40 per cent of the world's population. *The word //federal// comes from the Latin term //fidere,// meaning “to trust.” *In 1964 the Supreme Court ruled in //Heart of Atlanta Hotel// v//. United States// that despite the rights reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment, Congress had the authority to bar segregation because it could harm interstate commerce.