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The Scope of Congressional Powers
The Expressed Powers of Money and Commerce
Other Expressed Powers
The Implied Powers
The Non-legislative Powers
100
Powers that are spelled out in the Constitution
What are expressed powers?
100
The legislative body that has the power to tax American citizens
What is Congress?
100
Process by which citizens of one country become citizens of another country
What is naturalization?
100
Powers that come from a reasonable interpretation of the expressed powers.
What are implied powers?
100
A replacement, someone to fill a vacancy
What is a successor?
200
Powers that are derived from the expressed powers
What are implied powers?
200
The power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign trade
What is the commerce power?
200
Grants a person the sole right to manufacture
What is a patent?
200
The nickname for the Necessary and Proper Clause
What is the elastic clause?
200
Lying under oath
What is perjury?
300
A charge collected by the government to meet public needs
What is a Tax?
300
All of the money borrowed by the federal Government that is not repaid
What is the public debt?
300
The only group that can declare war
Who is Congress?
300
First Supreme Court Case regarding the Commerce Clause.
What is Gibbeons v. Ogden?
300
The act of accusing an elected official; to bring charges.
What is impeachment?
400
Those who favored a board interpretation of the Constitution
Who are liberal constructionists?
400
Spending more money than you make in a given year
What is deficit financing?
400
The inherent power to take private property for public use
What is eminent domain?
400
One who wants Congress to only use powers written in the Constitution.
What is a strict constructionist?
400
The house of Congress which has the sole authority to impeach an elected official
What is the House of Representatives?
500
Powers that the National Government is presumed to have based on the virtue of its sovereignty
What are inherent powers?
500
The legal proceeding in which a person's assets are divided among whomever the person owes debts.
What is bankruptcy?
500
An exclusive right to reproduce, publish or sell one's own creative work that lasts for the duration of the author's life plus 70 years.
What is a copyright?
500
The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury who urged Congress to set up a national bank
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500

The three presidents who were impeached by the House, but had the Senate vote to acquit them.

Who are Andrew Johnson, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton?