Economic powers of congress
This power, granted to congress by the constitution, allows the government to take on debt by issuing bonds and other forms of borrowing
What is to borrow money on the credit of the U.S.
This power gives Congress the authority to create and maintain a national mail system and the route it travels on.
What is to establish post offices and post roads
This pwoer allows Congress to maintain ground forces, but requires that funding for them cannot excees a two-year period
What is to raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than 2 years
This power gives Congress complete legislative authority over the nation’s capital and federal properties such as forts, arsenals, and dockyards
What is to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the District that becomes the seat of government of the United States, and over all places purchased with state consent for federal purposes
This clause give congress the authority to regulate trade between states, with foreign nations, and with native american tribes
What is the Commerce Clause
This power allows Congress to encourage innovation and creativity by granting inventors and authors exclusive rights to their work for a limited time.
What is to promote the progress of science and useful arts by searching for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
This specific power granted to Congress by the US Constitution to ensure that nation can defend its interests on the seas
What is to provide and maintain a navy
This clause gives Congress the authority to pass laws needed to carry out its enumerated powers and the duties of the federal government — it's often called the "Elastic Clause."
What is the Necessarry and Proper Clause
This constitutional power allows congress to create consistant national standards for becoming a US citizen and for handling financial insolvency
What is to establish uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankrubtcies throughout the US
This power authorizes congress to create lower federal courts beneath the nations highest court
What is to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme court
Congress uses this constitutional power to establish laws and standards for how the Army and Navy are organized and disciplined
What is to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces
Why arent there any ducks in congress?
Because they have a lot of bills
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Mr. Jeffrey Allan Brown
This power lets congress to create the nations currency, determine its value along with that of foreign coins, and set consistant systems for measuring and weighting.
What is to coin money, regulate value therof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures
This power allows congress to establish and enforce laws for crimes commited on international waters and violations of international laws
What is to define and punish piracies and felonies commited on the high seas, and offences against the law nations.
This power allows Congress to summon state forces when needed to enforce federal laws, stop uprisings, or defend against foreign threats
What is to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions
Why dont horses vote in congress?
They always say neigh
This power authorizes congress to set penalties for those who forge or imitate U.S. money or governmant bonds
What is to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the US
This power gives congress the authority to formally begin war, authorize privateers, and set rules for taking enemy property on land and sea
What is to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water
This detailed constitutional power gives Congress authority over the structure and readiness of the militia, while reserving to the states the right to appoint officers and conduct training
What is to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
Why Dont they use bookmarks in congress?
becuiase they always bend the pages