The United States is a symmetric federation, as each of the 50 states in the Union has the same standing and powers under the United States Constitution. This was affirmed in Coyle v. Smith when the U. S. Supreme Court declared a provision of the Oklahoma Enabling Act which required the State capital be located in Guthrie, Oklahoma until at least 1913, as being unconstitutional.
The United States is a symmetrical federation, as each of the 50 states in the Union has equal standing and powers under the U.S. Constitution. This was upheld by the Supreme Court's decision in Coyle v. Smith when it declared a provision of the Oklahoma Enabling Act that mandated the state capital be located in Guthrie, Oklahoma until at least 1913 as unconstitutional.