Its new tasks will likely bring it into conflict with euro-zone capitals over what will look to some national politicians as a creeping takeover of powers reserved up to now to national governments.
It will examine whether domestic powers currently reserved to Westminster are better off with the Scottish Parliament.
Governed by a board of supervisors, the agency has powers typically reserved for city and county governments.
Certain provisions extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, where powers are reserved to Westminster, such as on terrorism.
The Scottish government budget is currently funded by the UK Treasury and many financial powers are reserved, leading some to argue that Scotland is not properly accountable for the money it spends.
But it needs no crystal ball to know that Whitehall's deepest pigeon hole is reserved for anything that curtails executive powers.
Oh, and there is one more area where Perry has been a vocal leader: the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which asserts that those powers not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.
It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people.
One of the guiding principles of America's constitution is that powers not explicitly given to the federal government are reserved to the states.
These amendments stated explicitly that rights not enumerated in the Constitution were not denied to the people and that powers not enumerated in the Constitution nor prohibited to the states therein were reserved to the states or the people.
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