Strategic planning is an organization 's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. It may also extend to control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the strategy.
Supremacy Clause. The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land.
Federalism is a system where power is divided between a national and state governments. So really, the Supremacy Clause turns State governments into various agents of the Federal government with no independence or sovereignty at all. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_C... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism#...