The balance of power between the Federal government. When we think of a âbalance of powerâ we think of a weighing of interests between two entities, in this case the federal and state governments of the United States, both of which have vested interests in the powers which control and shape the nation.
The surname Webb was first found in Wiltshire where they held a family seat anciently from about the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. This name is confined south of a line drawn from the Wash to the Dee.
Buy JPG Image Â». Raines is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Raines family when they emigrated following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Raines comes from the short forms of various Germanic personal names containing the element Ragin, meaning counsel. It it thought that the name could also have been derived from Rennes, in Brittany. CITATION[CLOSE] Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom.