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Legislative Powers
Non-legislative Powers
Investigations and vocabulary
Congressional actions
Congress and the President
100

The power to levy taxes is stated in this section of the U.S. Constitution.

What is Article 1 section 8?

100
When no candidate has the majority of the electoral vote.
What is the power to choose a president?
100
A legal order that a person must appear or produce requested documents.
What is a subpoena?
100

Continuing review of how effectively the executive branch carries out the laws Congress passes.

What is oversight?

100

The communities that members of Congress represent.

What are states and districts or their constituents?

200

This reached $31 trillion in the year 2022.

What is the national debt?

200

When the House of Representatives formally accuses a civil leader of misconduct in office?

What is Impeachment?

200

To assign for a particular use, the term used to describe how money will be spent by the government.

What is appropriation or to appropriate?

200

The inherent power to take private property for public use

What is eminent domain?

200
The expressed authorization in the Constitution for the Congress and federal departments to take all necessary and proper measures to carry out the powers they are vested with by the Constitution

What is Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18?

300
The process by which immigrants to the United States may become citizens.
What is naturalization?
300
The Senate's power to ratify treaties between the US and other countries.
What is the ratification power?
300
Witnesses who do not tell the truth can be criminally prosecuted for lying under oath.
What is perjury?
300

This describes government actions that are authorized because it is the nature of being a government.

What is inherent power?

300
The President's power to check legislation by refusing to make it a law.

What is a veto?

400
This power deals with regulating foreign and interstate commerce.
What is the Commerce Power?
400

The Senate's power to approve presidential appointments of federal officials.

What is the confirmation or appointment power?

400

Legal proceeding in which someone’s assets are distributed among those to whom a debt is owed

What is bankruptcy?

400

The function of Congress to continuously watch over the executive branch.

What is the oversight function?

400

The willingness to use the necessary and proper clause only when absolutely necessary.

What is Strict Construction?

500
The exclusive right to publish and sell literary, musical, or artistic work, which Congress may grant.
What is a copyright?
500

When 2/3 of both the Senate and the House propose a change to the Constitution.

What is the Amendment process?

500

The issuing of a formal condemnation of an elected official’s actions.

What is censure?

500
Oversight is an example of this constitutional principle which does not allow one branch of government to have complete power.
What are checks and balances?
500

The constructionist view that expands during a time of national emergency.

What is Liberal Construction?