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No One Is Above the Law
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100

Congress has the power to lay and collect these compulsory contributions to federal revenue.

What are taxes?

100

Congress has the power to declare this state of armed conflict.

What is war?

100

Congress has the power to establish a uniform rule for this process of admitting immigrants as citizens.

What is naturalization?

100

Congress has the power to establish these types of offices and roads.

What is post?

100

This clause gives Congress the power to lay and collect taxes from the American people.

What is Taxing Clause?

200

Congress has the power to pay this financial obligation.

What is debt?

200

Congress has the power to raise and support this organized military force.

What is army?

200

Congress has the power to punish this action that imitates the legitimacy of United States currency.

What is counterfeiting?

200

Congress has the power to promote science and art by issuing these to authors and these to inventors.

What are copyrights and patents?

200

This clause gives Congress the power to regulate interstate trade of goods and services, as well as with foreign nations.

What is Commerce Clause?

300

Congress has the power to do something with money on the credit of the United States.

What is to borrow?

300

Congress has the power to provide and maintain this branch of the military that conducts operations on the Seven Seas.

What is navy?

300

Congress has the power to establish these which are inferior to the Supreme Court.

What are courts?

300

Congress has the power to establish a fixed standard of these two things.

What are weights and measures?

300

This clause gives Congress the power to declare war against a nation.

What is Declare War Clause?

400

Congress has the power to coin and regulate the value of this current medium of exchange.

What is money?

400

Congress has the power to make regulation of these two types of military forces.

What is land and naval?

400

Congress has the power to punish these criminal actions that take place on the waters.

What are piracies?

400

Congress has the power to call forth the militia to suppress these two types of instances.

What are insurrections and invasions?

400

This clause, which falls under two different names, gives Congress the power to pass any laws that assist in the execution of the other enumerated powers in Article I Section 8.

What is Necessary and Proper Clause or Elastic Clause?

500

Congress has the power to regulate this with foreign countries and between the states.

What is commerce?

500

Congress has the power to organize, arm, and discipline this military force made up of the civil population.

What is militia?

500

Congress has the power to make laws concerning these that occur on land and sea.

What are captures?

500

Congress has the power to exercise exclusive legislation over the place where federal governance occurs.

What is Washington, D.C.?

500

This clause authorizes Congress to use money for providing for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.

What is Spending Clause?

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