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The Constitution - Some Facts at a Glance
Source: Chart of Powers Granted to Congress
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants the following legislative
powers to Congress. Historians and legal scholars often distinguish between
the first seventeen "enumerated" powers and the eighteenth and final clause
which is the source of the "implied" powers.
Enumerated Powers:
1. To lay and collect taxes, to pay debts, and to provide for the common
defense and general welfare
2. To borrow money
3. To regulate foreign and interstate commerce
4. To establish rules for naturalization (citizenship) and rules for
bankruptcy
5. To coin money and fix a standard for weights and measures
6. To punish counterfeiters
7. To establish post offices and post roads
8. To establish rules for issuing patents and copyrights
9. To establish Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court
10. To punish piracy and crimes on the high seas
11. To declare war
12. To raise and support an army
13. To provide and maintain a navy
14. To regulate and make rules for the army and navy
15. To call out the militia
16. To regulate and share control of the militia with the states
17. To make laws for the District of Columbia and other Federal lands,
forts, and buildings, etc.
Implied Powers:
18. To make all laws necessary and proper to carrying out the above powers
(and any other powers granted to the Federal government by the Constitution)
The above eighteen clauses constitute the sum total of the legislative
powers granted to Congress.
Congress may not exercise its legislative authority on any other matters.
But, since the full extent of
Congress' powers are left open to some degree of interpretation in Article I
Section 8, Article I Section 9
offers a list of things Congress may NOT do under any circumstances:
Powers Denied to Congress:
1. To eliminate the slave trade before 1808
2. To suspend the writ of habeas corpus except in cases of rebellion or
invasion
3. To pass bills of attainder or ex post facto laws
4. To pass direct taxes, head taxes or other taxes that are not in
proportion to the population
5. To tax exports (from any state)
6. To prefer one state over another through the regulation of commerce
7. To spend government money without the specific authorization of law
8. To grant titles of nobility
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BeLIEve nothing, disbeLIEve nothing, observe everything,
and the unknown becomes the known.
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because the Feds Don't Like the Competition!
--- Peter L. Sroufe
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